GIFT TO THE NATION
FAMOUS HILL 60 “FOR EVER ENGLAND” By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. The seven acres of land comprised in Hill 60, the famous centre of the fighting at Ypres, have been offered as a gift to the nation by Mr. T. Calder, a director of Allsopp’s Brewery Company, in order that it may become, in the words of the late Rupert Brooke’s famous sonnet, “For ever England.” Mr. Calder says he bought the area in 1921 for £4OO as a site for a memorial to the London Rifle Brigade, but the scheme fell through. The donor leaves the manner of dealing with it entirely to the War Office. He says the land which was recently advertised for sale by a British officer adjoins Hill 60. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 1
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