ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1932, Page 5

ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD

WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILING AT THIEPVAL (United Press Association—By Electric ! Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, July 31. Arras is crowded with British, including many widows and children for the unveiling of, the memorial to the dead and missing, whose graves are unknown, ’ Air Field-Marehall Trencihard at Arras on Sunday, unveiled a memorial | bearing the names of 34,921 officers 'and men of the British Empirp who between the spring of 1916 and August 1918, died in the Arras neighbour- I hood, but whuief graves are (not j known. With it is a memorial to over I a thousand men .of the British Air Forces, who lie in the nameless graves on the Western front. He said that nearly thirty-five thousand British were missing, and killed, chiefly in the successful offensive of 1917, and the hard fought defensive in 1918, > The Air Force memorial, situated about the centre of the British front commemorated the meii \fho struggled against galiaht opponents for the mastery of the air, and died in all parts of the western front, or far beyond over Germany “and went homo through the heights,” Monday’s ceremony at Tluepval, when the Prince of Wales unveils a memorial is being broadcast in Bri- ' tain, France, Belgium, Canada, South ; Africa and the United States.