SOLDIERS’ BODIES EXHUMED.
OWNER OF LAND REBUILDING. (BELGIAN WAR CEMETERY. LONDON, March 9. lour hundred and eighty bodies of British Dominion soldiers, including 128 Australians and 35 New Zealanders have been removed from the War Cemetery at Ploegstert, Belgium, and reinterred half a mile away. The “Sunday Times” says that the owner of the original burial place, wishing to re-build his home, objected to the cemetery within his grounds detracting from the amenities of his property, and refused to sell his land. This is the only case out of 462 war cemehasearisen UDI difficnl ‘y , High Commissioners, with full aDDrov P a f e +t Of th n re^rettable situation, h ' e exhumati °u and reburial which was accomplished with the utmost care and reverence.
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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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