HALLOWED GROUND
HILL 60 BOUGHT FOR ENGLAND. There is happily no truth in the statement that historic Hill 60, near Loos, the restingplace of so many gallant British soldiers, *. tO , b ,f surmounted by a modem, hotel. Ihis hallowea spot, tho sceno of fierce fighting in the earlier days of tho wax, is" to remain a Corner of a foreign field That is torever England. Hill 60 has been purchased by Mr J J Calder, managing director of Messrs .Samuel Allsopp, Ltd., the Burton-on-Trent brewers —which probably accounts for the rumor circulated. In point of fact, Mr Calder's ideas ft 11 *. '•? q ! a ' te aaofcher channel. He explains that he stepped in and purchased the famous hill—or what is left of it—with tba idea of securing it for a -war memorial before it could be snapped up and put to other uses, i lie Site will now be handed over to. regimental committees of those units which suffered there, and ultimately it is hoped to erect a memorial worthy of the men who fought and died on the shell-torn siopes.
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Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 4
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180HALLOWED GROUND Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 4
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