ELOQUENT TOMBSTONE
LONDON, Nov. 15 A soldier suffering from influenza and bomb-shock was sent to a country military hospital. During the first niglit there, he was awakened by a violent explosion and saw a tombstone propped drunkeitly amid the broken glass at the foot of his bed. Shakily examining it, he found it bore the words, "Peace, Perfect I'eaco."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23818, 20 November 1940, Page 10
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59ELOQUENT TOMBSTONE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23818, 20 November 1940, Page 10
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