GERMAN WAR DEAD

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12605, 16 November 1926, Page 6

GERMAN WAR DEAD

HONOURED IN BIRMINGHAM THOUSANDS AT MEMORIAL SERVICE UNIQUE CEREMONY Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian a,nd N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 15, 5.5- p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Lily Keylock, nine years of age, whose father Was killed in the war, laid a wreath on one of the graves *n which 24 German soldiers are buried at Birmingham. She was accompanied by Ur. Me.vnen, from the German Ertiijassy. The wreath was inscribed: ‘Here, on the resting place of those who sleep far fro-m the Fatherland for which they died, this wreath was laid, in gentle homage, by an English child.” This is the first time representatives of England and Germany anywhere in England have paid a' joint tribute to German dead. The ceremony of depositing the wreath was preceded by a procession of 25,000 persons, including hundreds of bereaved by the war, maimed ex-soldiers, members of the British Legion, arfd a detachment of Territorials. The procession halted at the entrance to the cemetery, and General Ludlow, commander of the Territorials, warmly shook hands with Dr. Meynen. Ail then participated ill an open-air memorial service. The dead of both nations are buried in the same cemetery.