THEIR LAST SLEEP
GREAT SOLDIERS TOGETHER A FRENCH CEREMONIAL By (fable.—Press Association. —Copyright PARIS, Thursday. The arrangements have been completed for the reburial in the Hotel des Invalides, where the Emperor Napoleon lies, of the bodies of several French generals who fought in the World War. The ceremony will take place in the middle of 1D27. The bodies will be exhumed by the various municipalities and conveyed to Paris, where they will be laid side by side in the chapel, with flags above them. The generals include Grosetti, Roques, Maudhuy, Humbert, Maistre, Manoury, Dubois, Nivelle, Mangin and Langle de Cary. The only one missing is Genera! Gallieni, who, before his death, had expressed a desire that his body should be left in the cemetery at St. Raphael.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 15, 8 April 1927, Page 7
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129THEIR LAST SLEEP Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 15, 8 April 1927, Page 7
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