"MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have just read with great interest in the Spectator of July 29th your beautiful and touching account of The King's Pilgrimage, and of the record thereof written by Mr. Frank Fox. One omission, however, suggests itself, that there is no allusion to the countless nameless graves scattered all over these devastated fields of French and Belgian Flanders—these sacred spots that " will be for ever England "—some of them originally notified, but the ground so repeatedly fought over that identification was impossible when the War was at an end, and others, those where the " missing, believed killed," laid down their lives. Is there to be no record of the names of these in the cemeteries nearest to where they last fought? Such a record was, I understood, decided on at one time. Has the idea.
been given up?—I am, Sir, &c., E. H. GILLESPIE. Goldenfields, Liphook, Hants.
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