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Thu 11 Nov 2009First headstones of Irish soldiers killed in World Wars unveiled
IRISH SOLDIERS who served in the first and second World Wars, who are buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, were for the first time commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, yesterday.
In what was described as a “special day for the cemetery”, the war graves commission unveiled the first of 90 headstones it plans to erect on the graves of servicemen and women who were buried in “paupers’ graves” in the cemetery.
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