117 Linden Trees were planted here after WWI. Each representing a dead serviceman from this town.The town now has a population of about 2000. It was smaller then...
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I can not imagine what that town went through. The ratio of dead to the population is just staggering.
I remind people of things like this whenever they harp about the "massive casualties" in Iraq.
Some years ago, travelling from Thames to Taranaki, I took a break at a little township called Eureka, about 10km east of Hamilton. The World War One memorial was a shock - so many dead from such a small place, and many with the same surname.
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