GERMAN DEAD
WREATH ON SOLDIERS’ GRAVE IN BIRMINGHAM PLACED BY ENGLISH CHILD By Telegraph.—press association. Copyright. (Rec. November 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 14. Lily Keylock, nine years of age, whose father was killed in the war, accompanied by Dr. Meynen, from the German Embassy, laid a wreath on one of the graves in which twenty-four German soldiers arc buried at Birmingham. The' wreath was inscribed: “Here on the resting place of those who sleep far from the Fatherland’ for which they died, this wreath was laid as a gentle homage by an English child.” This is the first time representatives of England and Germany anywhere in England have paid a joint tribute to German dead. The ceremr.ny of depositing the wreath was preceded by a procession of 25,000, including hundreds of those bereaved in the war and maimed ex-soldiers, British Legioners a detachment of territorials. It halted at the entrance to the cemetery. General Ludlow, commander of th-- territorials, warmly shook hands with Dr. Meynen. All then participated in an open-air memorial service. The dead of both nations are buried in the same cemetery.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 9
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185GERMAN DEAD Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 9
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