MOVING SCENE VIEWED AT ANZAC SHRINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 11

MOVING SCENE VIEWED AT ANZAC SHRINE

DOMINION’S TRIBUTES Untied r.A. — By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Large numbers participated in the Anzac Day ceremonies. The Australian cricketers were among the earliest. Woodfull placed a wreath on the Cenotaph made of wattle and poppies, and inscribed: “In memory from the Australian cricketers.*’ Hundreds were unable to obtain admission to St. Clement Danes, which was packed halt an hour before the service. The Veu. Archdeacon J. W. Ward. ex-Archdeacon of Goulburn. officiated. Mr. J. E. Fenton and Sir Granville Ryrie read the lessons. Mr. Arthur Mason, of Sydney, was organist, and Miss Eunice Meredith, a New Zealander, sang the solos. The representative congregation included Sir lan Hamilton, Mr. T. M. Wilford, the Agents-General, and the Army, Navy and Air Force and liaison officers. MARCH TO SHRINE The scene was most impressive when 300 ex-members of the forces marched in procession toward the shrine, where Mr. Fenton on behalf of Australia, Colonel M. W. B. Thomas, on behalf of New Zealand, Woodfull and Kelly on behalf of the cricketers placed wreaths on the shrine. The congregation knelt while the Anzac Hymn was sung. Before the address Archdeacon Ward read General Bird wood’s message and Sir Granville Ryrie’s thankful reply. Archdeacon Ward said: Anzac Day commemorates the making of two nations upset by noble standards which it was their sacred duty to preserve. Sergeant A. W. Simpson sounded “The Last Post” and the service terminated with Chopin’s Funeral March WREATHS FROM OVERSEAS Thousands looked on at a moving spectacle when Lord Plumer headed a procession of distinguished persous and placed a wreath on the Cenotaph. Sir Granville Ryrie and Mr. Wilford, on behalf of their respective Governments, the Bishop of Bathurst, Retturned Soldiers’ Association, at Bathurst, L. H. Pike, R.5.5.1.L., Australia, A. G. Congreve, South African Soldiers' Association of New Soutli Wales, Colonel Manning, W£st» Australian R.5.5.1.L., all placed wreaths. An iced wreath from the Queensland Anzac Day Commemoration Committee glistened in the brilliant sunshine. During the afternoon, Lady Foster, on behalf of the New Zealand Victoria League, and Mrs. Wilford, on behalf of the New Zealand Mothers* Union, placed wreaths on the Cenotaph.