BURIAL OF SOLDIERS
Sir. —It is rather regrettable that the Lyttelton R.S.A. should entertain the idea of banning the burials of returned soldiers in the soldiers’ plot unless they are members of the association. There must be hundreds of members who literally got on the boat and came back, and yet a soldier who has seen years of hard fighting and is not a member is barred from the honour of being buried with his comrades. I trust the War Grave Commission will not grant the association’s wish.—Yours, etc., 36488. May 6, 1943. [This letter was submitted to Mr M. J. Brown, president of the Lyttelton R.S.A., who said that, while he did not wish to comment on it while the matter was under the consideration of the War Graves Commission, his personal opinion was that, as the association had raised the money for the plot and members had given their services in laying out the site, only members of the association should be buried there,]
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23945, 12 May 1943, Page 4
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