The Daily Mirror marks the occasion with a feature looking at the last resting place of the 1.7 million men and women who fought and died for Britain in the two world wars. The scale of loss is truly mind-boggling to the modern reader, with 575,053 service dead being buried in France alone. The global scale of the conflicts is laid open in a fascinating map, listing war graves in 153 countries, some surprising: the two dead in San Marino; one in Venezuela and 10 in Equatorial Guinea. The paper illustrates its article with Rupert Brookes famous lines: If I should die, think only this of me; That theres some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:20:32 +0000
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