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NAMELESS DEAD
GRATITUDE OF BELGIUM
[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.]
RUGBY, July 2.
On the road from AYestend to Newport, near Belgian Place, a memorial was yesterday unveiled in honour of the British officers and men who took part in the defence of Antwerp in 1914 and in defence of the Belgian coast during 1917, and who have no known grave.
Tho memorial bears tlie names of 561 British soldiers. Tho ceremony was performed by Lieutenant-General Sir George MaeDonough, who offered a tribute to the men and said that although the war was now long over, a feeling of respect and affection between the British and Belgian people, which it had fostered, would always continue. M. Henri Jaspar. the Belgian Prime Minister, said that Belgium would always feel gratitude for the British’ and would never forget that the bodies of the comrades of British soldiers whose blood was spilled for the maintenance of Flemish freedom'lie in Belgian soil.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1928, Page 2
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