[To rag EDITOR or THE " SrecTATol ") Sta,—I read
your restrained and most sympathetic article about the graves of our war heroes abroad in your issue of February 1st, and also the two excellent letters you printed, with a feeling of deep thankfulness that you had taken the matter up. We are two of the many bereaved parents whose all has been given by the death in action of an only child; and no memorial that we could ever put up could mean to us just what that single grave in France sloes, where we feel we should have the right to put something of our own elmosing. And I am cure many feel as w•e do, it is a sacred right, which ought not to lie denied to us. By all means let the chosen headstone of the Graves Commission, with-its inscription, be put on those graves where no personal one is desired. But to take this privilege from those who do desire it seems to me to impose an un- necessary and cruel hardship upon them. Living, we know our boys belonged to their country, and neither they nor we plestioned it. But dead, surely they belong again first of all to those who loved them, and whose right and privilege it ought to he to honour their graves, as they feel they best can. if they wish to do so. I thank you very much for the conifort your article has given to us personally, and I hope it, and the letters in response to it, may lead to a fresh consideration being given to the whole question.—I am, Sir.
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