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French battleground where 8,000 British soldiers lost their lives in the First World War is being turned into a rubbish dump.

Bulldozers are already desecrating the human remains which have lain undisturbed since the Battle of Loos in 1915.

The bones of the dead are being churned and brought to the surface.

The timing of the move, just days before nations honour their war heroes on Remembrance Sunday, is a slap in the face for ex-servicemen and their families.

The news will dismay military personnel who have launched a massive new Web site - www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk - detailing all the British and Commonwealth soldiers who served in the Great War.



Already a campaign has been launched to stop the plans for a rubbish dump.

Richard Lane, historian for the Royal Leicester Regiment, which lost more than 500 men in the bloody assault, said: "It is utter desecration.

"If this was happening in England, the people responsible would be arrested."

The Battle of Loos raged from September 25 to October 19 at Auchy les Mines, near Loos in northern France.

Thousands of soldiers showed incredible courage as they went "over the top" to march on a heavily armed German hillock.

More than 60,000 infantrymen, among them Rudyard Kipling's son John, were killed, injured or taken prisoner. In all, 22 Victoria Crosses were awarded for heroism.

So many bodies were lost in the bloody quagmire, the field has become a mass grave to the missing.

This is the most unfeeling and disgusting thing I think I have ever heard.

Those soldiers died saving the French.

Both my grandfathers fought in WWI and lost many of their friends at the time.  I am only tto pleased that neither of them are here to witness this.

Totally Disgusting.

I'm so insensed that I cannot post a full reply at this time.

Billy

I just despair when i read of such insensitivity, just because these men are gone does not mean they should ever be forgotten in this way.

Lindsay
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This is awful but I cannot see it mention on the news.  I would have thought there would be a national outcry.  Where did you see it Lel?

Jane

Hi Jane
it was on AOL news :(
If there really is no mention on the national news thats even more sorrowful :(

In England they are not allowed to move bones for 100 years. And When they were re doing the church in my town the bagged up all the bones they found and reintered them afterwards (with the vicar present) and all were over 150 years old.
And how awful it is that they would do that to British that fought for THERE country :( :(
Lea :(