pounds 15,000 vandal attack on war graves.(News)

From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) | Date: October 19, 1999 | Copyright information

VANDALS broke about 150 crosses on the graves of French soldiers killed in the First World War on the great battlefields at Verdun.

Police believe the crosses were destroyed over the weekend at the Commercy cemetery in eastern France where about 2,300 Fren...

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