FOR THE FALLEN
NEW BRITISH MEMORIAL AISNE AND MARNE BATTLES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. Another stage in the task of the Imperial War Graves Commission will be completed when on July 22 General Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon will unveil at Soissons a memorial to the British soldiers who fell in the war at the Aisne and the Marne in 1918. The work of the commission includes that of seeing that the name of every soldier who died in France is somewhere inscribed in permanent fori tion. In most cases the names are on stones, but those of unknown soldiers, whose bodies have not been located or have not been identified, are commemorated on the walls of cemeteries or on memorials. The sculpture of the Soissons memorial is the work of Mr. Eric Henri Kennington, and is ex-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 9
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