LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
TRIBUTE TO SOLDIERS. LONDON, June !). Addressing a conference of 800 delegates, representing. 2488 branches of the British Legion, the Duke of York said that history had revealed the unedifying truth that, however a nation might remember its great victories, its memory of those who had made the victory possible was generally short. This would have been true of the Great War but for the British L««ion, which had made itself a definite place in the life of the nation to-day. I The Diike of York and Earl Haig headed a procession of 3000 members of the legion to the Cenotaph, on which they- jointly placed a large wreath of poppies.— ("Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 5
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114LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 136, 10 June 1924, Page 5
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