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My great uncle Sidney Weeden had only been married for 3 weeks before he died of wounds. My great Aunt Rose, his widow, wanted her ashes to be buried with him when she died in 1991. I applied to the War Graves Commission to have this done. They said it was not possible as only widows who had not re-married could have this honour. I replied she was 101 when she died and had never re-married. I attended a short service at the graveside when she was interred with him. It is thought that this must be the last widow to be interred with her husband from the First World War.
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