REDMOND’S TOMB.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 13

REDMOND’S TOMB.

The fortune of war has overtaken the grave of Major William Redmond, who was laid to rest in the peaceful convent garden of Locre. Alas! the offensive of March, 1918, turned that garden into a ruin, where Major Redmond’s tomb is the only thing intact amongst the wreckage. The poor nuns, who gave the last hospitality to the great Irishman, are themselves homeless now, : and are only just beginning to return and camp in rough huts amid the ruins. The grave itself was right inside a trench line, eventually held first by French and then by Germans; and yet it is intact. It is now proposed to help rebuild the convent as a fitting memorial to Major Redmond.