WAR CROSSES
ORDERED TO BE BURNT
SURPRISE AT COLOGNE,
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, _6th November.
At Cologne considerable surprise has been expresesd at tho War Graves Commission ordering the burning of wooden crosses originally, erected in the British Military Cemetery at Cologne. The graves aro of wounded war prisoners who died in Germany. Some commemorating crashed airmen consisted of broken propellers. Others contained devices indicating the regiment or the country, aud on them were engraved particulars not included on the headstone by which they are now replaced. Those templates are being sent to Britain, but friends have not been given an opportunity of obtaining the wooden crosses, despite a regulation to that effect. The German complaint that the storage of the crosses occupies space that is wanted is regarded as trivial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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131WAR CROSSES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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