ARNHEM REVISITED
Survivors Of 111-fated Expedition NZPA Special Correspondent Rec. 10.15 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 19. The 185 survivors’of the Ist British Airborne Division and the Ist Polish Parachute Brigade who fought at Arnhem in 1944 revisited their old battlefields during the week-end and held a memorial service with their Dutch hosts in the ancient Dutch Reformed Church at Costerbeek. British and Polish ex-servicemen presented a baptismal font, a communion table and a silver communion cup to the church, which has now been restored after suffering very severe damage in the Arnhem fighting.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 7
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