World War I battlefield soil laid at London memorial Soil from World War I battlefields in Belgium was laid in a memorial garden in London on Saturday ahead of the 100th anniversary next year of the start of the conflict. Seventy bags of "sacred soil" gathered by more than 1,000 British and Belgian schoolchildren earlier this year arrived in Britain by Belgian warship on Friday. On Saturday, a horsedrawn army gun carriage took the bags past ...
Nov. 30, 2013 - AFP via Yahoo! News