The Archive · 1925

SHANGHAI GRAVES. OF

U. S. TROOPS

Last Resting Places of Spanish Victims Identified: Marked with Metal Crosses Approximately 125 graves, the last resting place of deceased American ex-Service men, have been identified with metallic' crosses by the Shanghai Camp of the United Spanish-American War Veterans of the war of 1898, This organization, in addition to mark-{ng the graves of men who fought in this war, have gone a step furthes, remembering veterans of the Amy, Navy and Marine Corps, whether of the recent world wat or of any other period, including the Givil and Indian Wars of the carly days.

The markers, placed in Bubbling Well cemetery' and in the foreign cemetery in the French Concession fare metal with a design in the form a cross, 12 in, by 12 in, in size the letters "U. S. Service" and ix stars in white on a black back-round.

The funds for purchasing the iron markers were raised by the organization under the supervision the committee composed of Major P. Holcomb, Capt. W. I. Elster, Mr. Walter S. Hibbard and- Int!

Charles Heyn,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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