MEMORY OF THE FALLEN
OLD CROSSES TO BE BURNED. SURPRISE IN COLOGNE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 26. At Cologne considerable surprise was expressed at the War Graves Commission ordering the burning of the wooden crosses originally erected in the British military cemetery at Cologne. The graves are of wounded war prisoners who died in Germany. Some of the crosses, commemorating crashed airmen, consisted of broken propellers, and other contained devices in dieating the regiment or country on which was engraved particulars not included on the headstone, by which they have now been replaced. These plates are being _nt to Britain, but friends were not given the opportunity of obtaining the wooden crosses, despite a regulation to that effect. The excuse that the storage of the crosses occupies space which is wanted is regarded as trivial.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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141MEMORY OF THE FALLEN Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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