Hello Bill!
Wednesday July 09 1997, Bill Wunsch writes to Jim Sanders:
 BW> Greetings, Jim!
 BW>   On 08 Jul 97, Jim Sanders entered the following ASCII codes for the
 BW> express viewing pleasure of Elvis Hargrove:
 JS>>
 JS>> Gunter Field (Montgomery, AL) had a cemetary of RAF cadets
 JS>> that the BT-13 put there. I guess that they were later moved home.
 BW> Seems to me that I read somewhere that is was British tradition for
 BW> military personel to be buried where they have fallen.  Or maybe my mind
 BW> is playing tricks again...
It is indeed a long standing British military tradition that the dead are 
buried where they fall.  That tradition extends to several other of the 
Commonwealth countries as well, including Australia.  The British buried 
their dead in the Falkland Islands War on the Falklands, most close to the 
seen of the battle in which they fell, hence there are two big cemeteries one 
near Goose Green and one near Pt Stanley.  Australian practice is much the 
same. Only a few years ago the body of an Australian WWI soldier was bought 
home from France to be buried in the Australian War Memorial as the 
Australian Unknown Soldier.  His was the first body of an Australian WWI 
soldier who fell overseas to be repatriated.  Similarly in WWII, the Korean 
War and in Vietnam Australian dead were buried where they fell.  A 
peacekeeper in Somalia who was killed accidentally was also bought home and 
there may have been others, however on the whole the British tradition is 
followed.  The same applies to airmen, recently the bodies of Australian 
airmen have been discovered in France and in New Guinea.  They have been 
removed for reburial, with full military honours, at nearby War Cemeteries.
Bye for now,
          Jackson
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