BRITAIN’S GLORIOUS DEAD.
" PRIVATE MEMORIALS FORBIDDEN. LONDON, Dec. 17. The \Var Graves Commission’s refusal to allow relationes ts erect private memorials in France and Flanders is sharply criticised on the gr-ound of the soullusslless and appzllling monotony of 500,000 uniform gravestones. ‘Speaking in the" House of Commons, Lord Cecil declared that the decision was inflieting unjustifiable suffering. Mr Churchill I__lpliéld the uniform I_nseinrorial for soldiers. Feeiling was that prince and peasant, private and officer, should rest together in common dignity and honour. The. Times, in a, leacler, says it is repugnant to: British‘ feeling ~th.at family lights should be slu‘relldered to the State-_
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3368, 22 December 1919, Page 7
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103BRITAIN’S GLORIOUS DEAD. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3368, 22 December 1919, Page 7
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