The news that the "Last Post" wilt be Sounded at Menin Gate, Ypres, at sundown every evening for ever, as 4 result of an endowment fund raised by the British Legion, comes aprope lately at a time when the world seems Preparing for yet another war. It will serve asa reminder of the terrific losses eulfered by the combatants, So far as the British Empire alone is concerned the annual' report of the Imperial War Graves Commission, shows that the cemeteries and memorials. of
continue to be the objects of pllgrim= those who died in, the Great War age from all parts of the world. Sir Fabian Ware, chairman of the committee of the Commission, says the report that although itis known that many visitors do not sign their hames in the visitors" books the num: ber who did sign during 1994" was 112904. "There is no sign at pres lent," Sir Fabian Ware states, "of avdecrease in the number of bodies of British soldiers found on the battleflelds in France. A recent analysis Feveals the. fact that 1240 were found in 1994, and that compared with 1993, this showed an increase of 116. From the end of 1921 when the work of searching the battlefields Was finally closed "down and visible signs of isolated graves remained, to the end of 1994, no fewer than 36590 British graves have been found and moved Into cemeteries." The total number of names register-fed in June, 1031, was 1,108,800. Of this number $87,117 had been identified and buried in known graves, while 517,773 were recorded /"Missing." "Of this number, however, 180,861 "were "Missing" only in a technical sense; they had been found but not identified and were buried "Uninown". "The names of the "Missing" appear on memorials, and they Include those lying in "Unknown" graves.
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