The King's Pilgrimage Part 6

The High Commissioners cabled to the Governments and peoples of the Dominions the terms of the King's a.s.surance that the graves of their dead will be honoured for all time.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The total number of the dead of the British Empire in the Great War was recently officially stated in the House of Commons to be 946,023, distributed as follows:--Great Britain and Ireland, 743,702; Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, Colonies, 140,923; India, 61,398.

[2] The following are the members of the Imperial War Graves Commission, those marked with a [+] being unavoidably prevented, owing to the Genoa Conference and other reasons, from personally attending: [+] Secretary of State for War (Chairman), [+] Secretary of State for the Colonies, [+]

Secretary of State for India, [+] First Commissioner of Works, The Hon.

Peter C. Larkin (High Commissioner for Canada), [+] The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, G.C.M.G. (High Commissioner for Australia), The Hon. Sir James Allen, K.C.B. (High Commissioner for New Zealand), [+] The Hon. Sir Edgar Walton, K.C.M.G. (High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa), The Hon. Sir Edgar Bowring (High Commissioner for Newfoundland), Sir William Garstin, G.C.M.G., G.B.E., Harry Gosling, Esq., C.H., J.P., Rudyard Kipling, Esq., Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Sir Robert Hudson, G.B.E., Vice-Admiral Sir Morgan Singer, K.C.V.O., C.B., [+] H. Maddocks, Esq., K.C., M.F., Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, K.C.V.O., K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. (Vice-Chairman).