THE UNKNOWN DEAD
BATTLEFIELD REQUI EM. ' United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, August 5. A requiem for thousands of heroic dead was sounded by the voice of a trumpet to-day when on the .sixteenth anniversary of Britain’s entry into tne war, four monuments commemorating soldiers whose resting places remain unknown, were unveiled at Loos, Pozieres, Vis en Artois, and Louverval. Sir Nevil Macßeady, quoting Bunyan’s noble poem, “We Shall Remember them,” pointed out that most of those named on the Loos memorial belonged to the first hundred thousand men who came from England at the earliest call. General IT. Smith unveiled the Pozieres memorial, with its 14,690 names. An impressive ritual of prayers, “The L.ast Post,” and minutes of silence followed by the British and French national anthems, conferred a fitting uniformity upon each ceremony.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1930, Page 3
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