FAMILY'S SACRIFICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 9

FAMILY'S SACRIFICE

LOSSES IN GREAT WAR

EIGHT BROTHERS KILLED

(Special ,to the "Evening Post.") AUCKLAND,'This Day.

The cross of sacrifice was given evea deeper significance at Auckland* Cenotaph on Saturday when it provided an Armistice Day tribute by > sister to the memory of her eight brothers who were killed or who died of wounds in the Great Wax*.

Made of red and white carnations, the cross carried a card on which was written:—"ln hallowed memory of all who gave their lives for our Empire, including 41 relations, eight brothers, five in action, three of wounds, all from England, 1914-18."

There was no signature oh thp card, but just the word "Sister." Who it was who thus paid tribute to her own and the Empire's dead, none of those who conducted the ceremony , areaware. Some did notice in the file o£ people who deposited wreaths a woman with a cross of flowers, but the significance of her offering was not appreciated until after she and the crowd had gone and the cards on the flowers were being read.

..A. thought "to which expression was given at that moment was that there was something more than fine in a tribute which remembered the general loss the private but proud grief in such a heavy family sacrifice. .