SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL.

Shannon News, 28 February 1922, Page 3

SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL.

(To the Editor.)

Sic, —tiur worthy Mayor some while u,vj jasueu subscription lists for Hie aouv’e, out i bejieve the response bus iioi neen very liberal up to tiie present, and now we are to have a Scotch concert to help swell me lunds. Good luck to the committee. May 1 suggest that if the proposed lonn which the Memorial is to take were made known, 1 think there would he a better response. So many folks have (lie idea n is to take the form of a monument of stone. Why not put on the subscription hsi several proposed forms Avhich the Memorial might take, -and those giving a subscription could put down w:-at particular scheme they favoured'! The Memorial could take the lonn of an avenue ol trees, with the name-plate on each of a fallen soldier, which lias already i'ound favour in some towns, a town clock, a bed ar beds in the district hospital lor the use of Shannon residents (moie especially returned soldiers or their dependents), or a memorial shelter erected in the cemetery, where - -those Avho go to tend the graves of their own departed will give a thought to those boys whose graves are many miles away. No doubt there are many other suitable iorms lor the Memorial to take, and if those concerned Avouid let us knoAV Avhat they want, and what the cost Avouid he, the lists would soon be filled.—l am, etc., BURRINGBAR.