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Local villagers and members of the AFC looking at the grave of MvR. Some of those villagers looking on may have been responsible for trying to dig it up that same night, objecting to the burying of a German in their local graveyard at Sailly-le-Sec, Somme.

Local villagers and members of the AFC looking at the grave of MvR. Some of those villagers looking on may have been responsible for trying to dig it up that same night, objecting to the burying of a German in their local graveyard at Sailly-le-Sec, Somme. (picture source: The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war's greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021)

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Local villagers and members of the AFC looking at the grave of MvR. Some of those villagers looking on may have been responsible for trying to dig it up that same night, objecting to the burying of a German in their local graveyard at Sailly-le-Sec, Somme.

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