SOLDIER HEADSTONES IN LAWN CEMETERY
Sir,—To remarks made by Mr E. H. Andrews and Mr M. J. Barnett to my letter in “The Press” this morning, I answer not in self-defence, as Mr Barnett may suggest, but to assure him -hat he has made another gross misstatement. I, although a monumental mason, have no ulterior motive, as soldiers’ headstones are supplied to the relatives by a Government department, and are of no material interest to me. Mr Andrews’s remarks sum up ;he ideal of the cemetery very fittingly: to make it “a very beautiful place,” with beautiful trees, flowering shrubs, lawns, and plots. In other great soldiers’ cemeteries, all equally beautiful, these wonderful gifts of mother nature are subservient to the memory of the honoured dead. So I would say, make first a memorial (not a brass plate) to our soldier and then honour it with the care and attention due by us to him—Yours, etc., , H. J. HAMPTON. September 12, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 8
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