QUEEN’S MESSAGE
TO WOMEN OF EMPIRE
(United Press Association—Bv Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10
The “Evening Standard” publishes the following Armistice Day message Irom the Queen to the women of the Fail pi re :—-
“Ail who visited the war cemeteries must have been moved to the hearts as I was by the solemn beauty and reverent care with which they are tended We know, too that the War Graves Commission surrounds them with the same care wherever they be in these cemeteries at rest. Many are fearless devoted women who gave their lives while serving as army volunteers and territorial nurses in the Women’s \uxiliary Army C'o|rps in Queen .Mary’s Corps, yet those who fell are not alone in having sacrificed all that life has to offer. “Every man of our million dead may have been clearer than any thing in earth to some woman, and in every part of the Hmpire to-day are women who go on living, with wounds in their heart that time cannot heal. I wish my voice could reach each one with a word of loving sympathy.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 5
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188QUEEN’S MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 5
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