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. A PARTY of American Army officers recently flew from Guadalcanal to Brisbane to attend the military funeral given an unknown American soldier. The party was headed by Lieut.- Colonel R. McDonald, in charge of the Graves Registration Unit on Guadal canal, « a i, irHo o n avw,t, T Saturday, }s e Al ™;J Transport, Goucher Victory, sailed Brisbane to Guadalcanal with L 864 American war dead, disinterred from cemeteries at Ipswich (Qld.) and Sydney. About 50 per cent, of the bodies will be re-buried in Honolulu, and the re mainder in the United States.