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JOHNSTON'S JOLLY CEMETERY
is a quotation from the Apocrypha (Ecclesiasticus 44, verse 13) which appears on all "Special Memorial E" headstones. The "Kipling Memorial headstone", as it is also know, commemorate casualties whose graves in a particular cemetery were destroyed or who were known to be buried there but whose exact whereabouts within the cemetery were not recorded. (information provided by Terry Denham)
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT“
STONES COULD SPEAK - ANZAC
Private John Wilson Jones, is one of
the 6.993 Joneses who were killed between 1914 and 1918
while in service of the Common Wealth Forces ... nearly 5 Joneses died every
day for the duration of the war.
(information taken from the CWGC website)
Last updated : 01/12/ 06