An Interesting Ceremony.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3409, 14 January 1890, Page 2

An Interesting Ceremony.

An interesting ceremony was.par-1 formed:-at Brooirton Cemetery on November 2C, General Sir F. Stephenson unveiled a memorial erected to the memory of over 1000 Guardsmen who lie within the walls of that burial place. Since the year 1854 an oblong plot near the west wall has been reserved by the Government for the interment of the men of the Grenadier, Coldslreara,and Scots Guards who die in London. This piece of ground, known as the Guard's plot, lately presented an aspect of .neglect that appealed not merely to the military eye, but to the sentiment of the soldier; Of the thousand men gathered within the area few men have any mark of their resting-place, notwithstanding thai many must have hoen the heroes of the'Crimiian and Egyptian campaigns, To remedy this, neglect, a numbor of officers proposed to erect.a memorial that should: be: both .a', token of comradeship and an ornament to the soldiers' burial place, The idea was taken up. by the men ,of the brigade and £SOO was raised'.; For this sum Mr Burke has designed and • erected a handsome monument, A plain'cross :of white Sicilian marble rises from "the amtre,cf the plot. The three marblo steps upon which it rests havo an octagonal-base of Cornish granite,; upon four .corners of which are piled rotrJ shot, while in the middles of four iides avo two bronze guns crossed over the muzzle of a canon. The badges' of the three regimentsarecut upon tho face of the marble steps, and beneath is inscribed the following:—'• Triajunda m uno. : To the memory of soldiers of tho Brigade-of Guards buried here since ! 1854 this cross is dedicated by their i comrades a,d. 1889."