Belgium Remembers British Dead
Memorial Unveiled ETERNAL GRATITUDE British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. A memorial has been erected on the road from Westende to Nieuport in honour of the British officers and men who took part in the defence of Antwerp in 1914, and in defence of the Belgian coast in 1917. and who have no known grave. The memorial bears the names of 564 British soldiers with unidentified graves. The unveiling ceremony was performed yesterday by Lieut.-General Sir George McDonogh, who paid a tribute to the men who fell. He said that although the war was now long over, the feeling of respect and affection between the British and Belgian peoples which it had fostered would always continue. M. Henri Jaspar, the Belgian Prime Minister, said Belgium would always feel gratitude for the British, and would never forget that the bodies of their comrades of the British Army, whose blood was spilled for the maintenance of Flemish freedom, lay in Belgian soil.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 397, 4 July 1928, Page 9
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163Belgium Remembers British Dead Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 397, 4 July 1928, Page 9
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