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Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They w(...)
Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They w(...)

Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They w(...)

Date10/26/1942
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Original Toronto Star caption: Flower-covered caskets of 28 English schoolboys and their woman headmaster are borne in motor trucks to a communal grave in an English village. They were killed when a single bomb from a lone Nazi raider shattered the schoolhouse
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019449F
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and other types of guns that soon will send out a hot tune for the Axis from early three years to pounce on Hitler's hordes waiting across the English(...)
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Capt Bill Red Rief, Motor Transport sec RCASC [Incomplete]
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Maria Karouzou, of the Greek village of Distomo, lost her father, mother, brother, son-in-law, sister and three-hear-old nephew in the massacre of the(...)
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