DESTRUCTION OF THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE BATTLE OF LOOS

Early day motion 1887, tabled 8 November 2004 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 47 members.

That this House notes with horror that the historic site where part of the Battle of Loos was fought in 1915 is being turned into a rubbish tip; further notes that the village of Auchy les Mines, in northern France, was the site of one of the most intense, bloody battles of the war and that up to 60,000 British soldiers died, including more than 500 from the Royal Leicestershire Regiment; and calls on the Foreign Secretary to meet the French Foreign Minister with a view to saving the battlefield from destruction and helping to preserve it as a place of historic interest.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Conservative 4, DUP 4, Liberal Democrat 4, Labour/Co-operative 3, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1, UUP 1.