THE BROOKE MEMORIAL
DETAILS GF THE UNVEILING. WREATH FROM BYRON’S GRAVE. RUGBY, April 6. The memorial to Rupert Brooke, the young English poet, who was killed on one of the highest peaks of the island Gallipoli, was unveiled yesterday of Skyros, overlooking the Aegean Sea, by the Greek Prime Minister, M. Venizelos, in company with the Greek Foreign Minister, the British Minister at Athens, and a large number of distinguished writers of many nationalities, M. Venizelos placed a wreath of flowers picked from the grave of Lord Byron at the foot of the statue,
The island was en fete last night, when thoro was dancing by torchlight,
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1931, Page 2
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107THE BROOKE MEMORIAL Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1931, Page 2
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