Article 672RY Man ‘may be last to be buried’ in evacuated Wiltshire ‘ghost village’

Man ‘may be last to be buried’ in evacuated Wiltshire ‘ghost village’

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Steven Morris
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Imber, on Salisbury Plain, was cleared for D-day preparations and is still under MoD control

A ghost village" evacuated almost 80 years ago is to host what might be its final funeral for a man who lived there when he was a boy.

The settlement of Imber on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire was cleared during the second world war so that the area could be used to prepare troops before the D-day landings.

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