AN ANZAC'S GRAVE IN ENGLAND
Sergeant Hunter, of Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., was mortally wounded in France, and died on being taken from the- Red Cross hospital train at Peterborough (England), and was buried in that oity. The editor of the Peterborough paper asked that the grave should not be nameless, and one hundred guineas wero promptly subscribed to expross by a memorial "tho gratitude of the locality and nation to tho Commonwealth overseas, which has shed so much of its manhood for tho British flag in the presont war." Tho memorial is a lofty and very beautiful monument. The remainder of the subscription will provide a bronze mural tablet in Peterborough minster by consent of the Dean. The Peterborough Council adopted a minuto that they should take caro of tho monumont and gravo at tho board , si expense. Tho inscription on the monument is:—"ln gratitude to a lonely Anzae, Sergeant G. T. Hunter, of the 10th Australian Corps, of Kurri Kurri, Now South Wales, mortally wounded in France fighting for the Allies. Died in this city, July 20. 191 R. aged 3R years."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2981, 19 January 1917, Page 8
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183AN ANZAC'S GRAVE IN ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2981, 19 January 1917, Page 8
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