WAR GRAVES IN COLOGNE
ORDER FOR BURNING OF WOODEN CROSSES SURPRISE EXPRESSED (Rec. November 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 26. At Cologne considerable surprise has been expressed at the War Graves Commission ordering the burning of. wooden crosses originally erected in the British military cemetery at Cologne. The graves are of wounded war prisoners who died in Germany. Some commemorating crashed airmen consisted of broken propellers. Others contained devices indicating the regiment or the country, and on them were engraved particulars not included on the headstone bv which they are now replaced. These templates are being sent to Britain, but friends have not been given an opportunity of • btaiuing the wooden crosses, despite a regulation to that effect The German complaint that the storage of the crosses occupies space wanted is regarded as trivial.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 55, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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134WAR GRAVES IN COLOGNE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 55, 29 November 1926, Page 9
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