WAR HEROES HONOURED
BRITISH AND GERMAN HOMAGE TO BRAVE MEN BOTH NATIONS PAY TRIBUTE By Telegraph—Pl-ms Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 14. Lily Keylock, aged nine, whose father ■was killed in the war, accompanied by Dr. Meynen from the German Embassy, laid a wreath on one of the graves wherein 24 German soldiers are buried at Birmingham. The wreath was inscribed: "Here, on the resting place of those who sleep far from ‘ the Fatherland for whieh they died, this wreath was laid as a gentle homage by an English child." This is the first time representatives of England and Germany anywhere in England have paid a. joint tribute to the German dead. The ceremony of depositing the wreath •was preceded by a procession of 25,000, including hundreds of war bereaved, maimed ex-soldiers, British Legioners, and a detachment of Territorials. It halted at the entrance to the cemetery, where General Ludlow, Commander of the Territorials, warmly shook hands with Dr. Meynen. All then participated in an open-air memorial service to the dead of both nations who are buried in the same cemetery.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 7
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184WAR HEROES HONOURED Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 7
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