§ Mr. Granvilleasked the Secretary of State for War if he will give an assurance that proper steps are being taken to identify and maintain the graves of soldiers who lost their lives in Malaya and the Far East area; and if he will give their relatives the fullest information as to their whereabouts and the arrangements for proper upkeep.
§ Mr. ShinwellI am happy to give an assurance that everything possible is, and will be, done to identify and maintain graves of Service personnel who lost their lives in Malaya and the Far East. The War Office notifies the next-of-kin of the whereabouts of the grave of the deceased, and once the Army Graves Services' work is completed the cemeteries will be handed over to the Imperial War Graves Commission, who will maintain them in perpetuity.