BRITISH DEAD AT FAENZA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25814, 9 April 1945, Page 3

BRITISH DEAD AT FAENZA

“ It may interest your readers who had any relatives or friends' fighting with the Eighth Army in Italy, and were killed in or near Faenza, to know that there is a beautiful British cemetery outside the walls of the old town,” wrote Lieutenant-colonel H. S. Scott Harden, of Farnham, in a recent letter to the'Sunday Times, London. “This ground for the resting-place of British soldiers was obtained from the local authorities when I was commandant of the rest canip at Faenza in 1918. Some 35 men were buried there during the last war. In remembrance of these soldiers, the picture of St. Martin painted by Mr Wilfred Thompson in Florence for our church in the rest came, and called ‘St, Martin-in-the-Ficlcis,’ was sent after the war to St. Martin’s in Trafalgar square.”