FIRST SOLDIER KILLED
In a small civilian cemetery on the edge of a' deserted village, under the shadow of the Maginot Line forts, lies the grave of a British soldier believed to have been the first killed in action on the Western Front in this war.
A plain wooden cross marks the peaceful resting-place of Corporal Friday, of the King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry, who was killed on December 12 during a night patrol in No Man’s Land. Around him lie French graves, many of them with tumbled gravestones, where peasants and farmers of the village have been buried for generations.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 7
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101FIRST SOLDIER KILLED Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 185, 2 May 1940, Page 7
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