Soldier's skull, long in US medical museum, buried in France
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian soldier's skull has been buried in a French war grave a century after it was taken for eventual display in a Philadelphia medical museum, Australia's government said Saturday.
Private Thomas Hurdis was wounded in Belgium on Sept. 26, 1917, and died a week later in a U.S. field hospital in France at the age of 26.
The Australian government was alerted last year that the skull of an unnamed Australian soldier, with a bullet lodged in bone between his eyes, was on display at the Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.