Our Arlington Hero ; Answers to Correspondents [Scot Region]

Daily MailApril 20, 2009

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QUESTIONThere is, supposedly, one British occupant of the U.S. military cemetery at Arlington. Who was this?

SIXTY-three foreign nationals are buried in Arlington National Cemetery, of whom 24 are British (including two women), five Canadian, one South African and one Australian.

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Our Arlington Hero ; Answers to Correspondents [Scot Region]

One of the Britons is the famous Major- General Orde Wingate, of 'Chindit' fame, killed when a U.S. B25 Mitchell bomber in which he was travelling crashed. He is buried, with nine other victims of the crash, in a mass grave.

The most illustrious Briton interred in Arlington, however, is Field-Marshal Sir John Dill. Dill was born i...

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