PLATOON OF DEAD
CELLAR’S GRIM SECRET. DISCOVERY AT YPRES. LONDON, May 8. A message from Brussels states that the bodies of 40 British soldiers have been discovered at Yprea in the cellar of a building in the Grande Place, having evidently been overcome with gas. The dead men were lying peacefully with' their heads pillowed on their arras. Identification was easy, and the regimental badges assisted to determine the date of the tragedy. It was remebered that practically a whole platoon was wi]>ed out by a loin enemy shell hereabouts in the summer of 1915.
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Southland Times, Issue 18836, 1 June 1920, Page 6
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95PLATOON OF DEAD Southland Times, Issue 18836, 1 June 1920, Page 6
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