MEMORIAL CHAPEL.
DEDICATION IN SURREY. AMERICAN WAR DEAD. Received August 16, 10.55 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 15. The memorial chapel to the American soldiers who died in England during the Great War was dedicated .at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. In it 600 Americans are buried. The chapel is the gift of the American Battle Monuments Commission. General J. J. Pershing, the American Commander-in-Chief during the War, was ill and unable to attend. Colonel Robert Woodside, vice-chairman of the commission, dedicating the memorial declared that America would work and fight for world peace. They were not pacifists.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 7
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94MEMORIAL CHAPEL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 7
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