The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-05-16
Our HeroicDead
Are RESTING In
Peace Todau In
Seven European
Countries
BY LLOYD ALLEN.
Special staff Correspondent.

Copyright. 1919. by Western Newspaper union.)
ARlS.-America' dead-scv-
IfG enty thousand In all-are
N2MI being well cared for here
E@J In Europe by section Of
the American expeditionnry
force detailed to collect the bodies and
place them in military cemeteries.
Don't imagine for one minute that
this big undertaking is a task that was
neglected while the war was in prog.
ress; that the Americans who fell
In battle were not Inferred on the
battlef1elds. Some few cases have
been noted where bodies were found
unburied weeks after the fighting
stopped; but these cases are so few
that they cannot be taken into con-
sideration
What Is being done by the American
expeditionary force now In the way
OF caring for the dead Is the second
chapter. The bodies are being dis
inferred from battlefield graves and
carried to military cemeteries where
the mounds are arranged row on row
In even ranks, that in death they may
be as they were in life-shoulder to
shoulder. Above each grave cross
Is placed. On the cross is nailed
zinc Identification tag, giving the name
and regiment. Around each cemetery
substantial fence Is erected. Above
each mound Is small replica Of the
Stars and Stripes.
What chapter three of the story will
be remains to be seen. Congress will
bodies requested by the mans family
Yet even II such ruling is put into
effect, thousands OF American graves
| will remain in Europe for the reason
that many families will prefer-as did
| the Roosevelt family-to allow their
| dead to remain here for their final
| sleep.
In Seven Countries.
And they are resting in peace today
In seven European countries England,
| Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Russia,
Italy, Luxembourg, but mainly In
France near the sectors where the
American boys did their valiant and
| telling work in finishing up the Ger
man army.
England has two American ceme-
teries: one at Liverpool with GA
graves, and the other at Magdaen
Hill, Winchester. with 800 graves.
In Scotland there are 600 graves
| aster.
Ireland has 80 graves. and there nre
graves In Italy. Russia, Luxembourg
and small American cemetery nj
Coblenz, where large detachment of
the American army OF occupation Is
stationed In Germany proper.
It is the "Graves Registra tion
Service" that has charge Of classified
ton of the American dead In Europe
More than 1000 soldiers were assigned
to duty in this service which Is n
branch of the quartermaster's corps
They not only toke up the dead In the
battle zones. but have searched all OF
France to find the few bodies that es
capped notice and were left unburIet
daring the days Of actual warfare
From frozen dueouts. from ruined
houses shattered by shell Are, ant
thousands OF isolated spots the bodie,
we're recovered. France. In the wal
zone. was literally combed and combec
again in order that none be left.
Through the Argonne forest. for ex
ample, the worst fighting OF the fina
weeks of war took place In Tickets
Every square kilometer In the Argonnt
has been covered by the searching
parties.
France as whole has been divided
into IL areas through which thu
Graves Registration Service" works
There are three advanced sections ane
nine other areas. which include has,
and intermediate sections and the dis
trict Of Paris.