42
The Ypres Times.
Identified.
Unidentified.
Total.
Identified.
Unidentified.
Total.
{United States
300
300
Portuguese East
Panama
3
3
Africa
475
7
482
British Honduras
35
35
{Union of South
Bermuda
45
45
Africa (including
J amaica
165
165
Rhodesia, except
Leeward Islands.
1
1
N.E.)
541
541
Windward Islands
38
38
fCameroons
389
16
405
Barbados
5
5
{Nigeria (including
Trinidad
9
9
mandated terri
British Guiana
6
6
tory)
33'
I
332
Argentina
1
10
Gold Coast Terri
Brazil
10
tories (including
Chili
3
3
British Togoland)
l6l
161
Peru
4
4
Sierra Leone
I07
I
107
Falkland Islands
13
13
Gambia
French North Africa
34
34
Mauritius
13
I3
West Africa
3
3
Seychelles
I
1.
Egypt
9.326
148
9.474
St. Helena
4
4
Sudan
Somaliland
fEast Africa (includ
ing Kenya, Uganda,
Tanganyika. Zan
72
117
72
117
In some cases, e.g., Great Britain and Ireland,
the figures under Unidentified include graves
of which the particulars are still incomplete and
which have therefore not yet been fully registered
zibar, Nyassaland,
Registration is incomplete in these countries.
North-East Rho
These are estimates, the final figures not having
desia)
4.909
12
4,921
yet been received.
As seen from the above, the total casualties and graves are in round numbers a
million, of which
550,000 are Identified graves
150,000 Unidentified
300,000 Missing (i.e., having no known graves).
The various areas given in the above table, including Great Britain and Ireland,
embrace no less than eighty different countries. As The Ypres Times is sent practically
all over the world there is much to interest those abroad who have not had the advantage
of reading the report in the Press here.
The hardest work for the Commission appears to be at Gallipoli, where the un
identified are 5,000 more than the identified. It will be noticed in Germany that there
are no unidentified.
Over 200,000 headstones have already been shipped to the various theatres of war.
Tablets have been erected in Amiens Cathedral as memorials to commemorate all
the officers and men of the Empire on the Western Front, and it has been decided to
erect similar tablets to the above in a number of cathedrals of France and Belgium.
The tablets are of Hopton Wood stone with an inscription panel in gesso, bearing the
arms of the Mother Country and the Dominions, coloured and gilded.
"Horticultural Branch." From the nine nurseries maintained by the Commission,
3J million trees, shrubs or flowering plants were distributed to the cemeteries, 18 miles
of hedges had been planted, 152 acres had been sown with grass, 180 miles length of
flower borders formed and planted (where the graves were in the sand dunes it meant
soil being brought from considerable distances), 598 road direction boards were erected,
and 470 cemetery fences built or re-sited.
The acquisition of land for 450 British War Cemeteries in France and 74 in Belgium
has been completed.
In the United Kingdom nearly 28,000 graves have been completed in 29 military
plots.
