THE GRAVES IN GALLIPOLI.
(To Tar Enos OF " Scsouroa."1
Sis,—Many will have been distressed at hearing that the Turks have desecrated the British graves in Gallipoli. I em also bitterly disappointed and disillusioned: I thought better of the Turk. I never buried a dead Turk soldier without regard to reverence or without a few prayers for one who, at any rate, I could believe died in a cause that he deemed right. Directly the terrible rush of the necessarily hurried and frequent burials of the first days after the landing was over, I planned and, by the aid of sympathatio officers and men of the Royal Engineers, set out a cemetery on high ground shove Lancashire Landing. The first bodies were buried feet towards the sea, the idea in my mind being that our heroes should lie looking towards the sea whence they came to give their lives for God and country. This eymbolio " orientation " was persisted in by my friend Dr. Ewing, M.C., who landed in May and took over the pastoral work of the casualty clearing hospital and the care of the cemetery.
I trust that none who are specially interested in the 29th Division, and in the naval forms which assisted in the landing, will ever forget that the memorial to the Division j2 in the chapel of Holy Trinity Church, Eltham, and that every year on April 25th we hold a memorial service. I am hopeful that all such friends will look upon the chapel here as a special centre of prayer and grateful memory. There is ample roam on the oak panelling for the names of any individual officers and men who fell in Gallipoli, 1915-1910, whose relatives desire to commemorate them in this way. I *could welcome, too, any gifts for the further furnishing and adornment of the chapel. I wish it ultimately to be not an unworthy memorial to the unrivalled Division. If any of your military readers could moms for the chapel one or two appro- priate flags they would add enormously to the symbolism of the -whole memorial.—I am, Sir, Sc.,
Homy A. 11 ALL, C.T.F.
(late Divisional Chap/aim to the Mb Division at end after the Holy Trinity Vicarage, Eitham, S.E. 9.
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