GRAVES OF WAR DEAD
BRITAIN GIVES WINDOWS FOR CHAPEL
PILGRIMAGE TO ARRAS
(Australian and X.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The whole Empire l was represented at Arras. Colonel Studholme representing New Zealand, when the Secretary for War, Sir Tom Shaw, formally presented a set of six stainedglass windows for the memorial chapel at the French National Cemetery, erected on a spur facing Vimy Ridge, on behalf of all the Governments and peoples of the Empire. Thousands of the French were present. The chapel stands in the midst of 30,000 graves. The windows commemorate the Empire dead, who fought on the same ground as their French comrades. It is intended as a tribute of gratitude for French assistance for Imperial war graves by generous grants of lands for cemeteries. Mr. Shaw said this homage and sympathy came from the burning sun of India to the snows of Canada, from the sunny seas of the south, from Africa, and from the end of the globe, Australia and New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 733, 5 August 1929, Page 9
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170GRAVES OF WAR DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 733, 5 August 1929, Page 9
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