BRITISH SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN FRANCE. IT° seta EDITOR OP THE
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Sin,—Mr. James's letter under this heading in your issue of August 12th is most touching, and no doubt many further instanoes will be forth- coming of the sympathy and solicitude of Frenchwomen in tending the graves of our dead soldiers. My daughter, who is working under the French Red Cross at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, writes to me as follows :- " A nice little incident occurred to-day. One of the men who is rather a pal of mine had his mother and sister to see him, and they were talking to me afterwards and sort of thanking me for all that was being done for him, and so on. Madame Naudier said that at her home there were the graves of four English soldiers, and that these graves were always trimmed and tended by the village ; but she is so touched by our care for-her son that, she told me, she promised to keep them always with flowers and to put up stone crosses. Very touching, I thought, and such a sweet idea for a rough peasant woman."
—I am, Sir, he., W. CASEY MORGAN.
22 St. John's Wood Park, N.W.
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