SCANDALOUS NEGLECT
GRAVES 0? L ’TISH SOLDIERS ■IN .'v 7 ;. AFRICA MEN O FLLL IN BOER WAR. ... ’ - 'E OFFICER'S ch res. - .. ’Th:; 13 35 a.m.) ".p: AWN. July l-l:' Scandal i • • • .'...■ -f the graves <" British soldieis killed in the Boc-r V. a" was alleged by Mr E. W. Walker, a former District Commissioner of Sou' 1 ' African Police, in an interview witthe "Cap? Argus." He cites cases o' neglected cemeteries, unidentified gra ve- and broken monuments and allege; that he found uniformed skeletons exposed on tile open veldt, with the remains disturbed by animals. Memorial crosses had been sold to iron foundries i.-l some cemeteries ■.‘•'ere now among
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 6
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108SCANDALOUS NEGLECT Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 6
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