Article: Veterans attack e Bay `ghouls' who buy and sell relics found on battlefields.(News)

MERSEYSIDE war veterans have criticised internet auction site e Bay over the on line sale of war relics scavenged from foreign battlefields.

Among the items being traded are metal pins used in the construction of the notorious Burma Railway - which claimed the lives of more than 15, 000 prisoners of war and was the subject of the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai . Souvenir-hunters branded ``ghouls'' by veterans have also been removing World War I medals, rifles and helmets from battlefields in France and Belgium and selling them for profit.

The Wirral Burma Star Association demanded e Bay prevents users from trading such items.

Cliff White, ...

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