WAR GRAVES REMOVED
BELGIAN PROPRIETORS' OBJECTION.
A UNIQUE INCIDENT.
[United Press Aeeoclatlon-By CableCopyright.l (Received 10, 9.10 a.m.) London, March 9. Four hundred and eighty bodies of British and dominion soldiers, including 128 Australians and 35 New Zealanders, have oeen removed from the war cemetery of Ploegstreet, Belgium, and reinterred half a mile away. The “Sunday Times” says th»t the owner of the original burial place, wishing to rebuild his home, objected to a cemetery within the grounds as detracting from the amenities of the property. He refused to Jell the land. Thia ib the only case out of the 462 war cemeteries in Belgium wnere any difficulty hat> arisen. The High Commissioners. in full knowledge of the regrettable situation, approved tbe exhumation and reburial, which was accomplished with the utmost care and reverence.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19300310.2.47
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 5
Word Count
133WAR GRAVES REMOVED Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in