AN ENGLISH EPIC.
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC/
A NATIONAL MEMORIAL.
PATRIOTISM SPURNING FEAR.
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(Received 12.30 v.xa.) LONDON, August 10. The national memorial to the dead of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1912, was unveiled at Devonport before an immense gathering. Commodore Charles Boyd, a member of Scott's first Antarctic expedition, unveiled the memorial, and asked the Mayor of Plymouth to acceDt, its custody. He suggested the children of the local schools should be brought into the shadow of the memorial to hear the story of the expedition as an example. Those who laid wreaths on the memorial included Mrs. Hilton, young Master Peter Scott and the surviving officers of the Discovery. The monument is a granite pylon surmounted by a bronze group representnig courage sustained by patriotism spurning fear, despair and death.— (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 11 August 1925, Page 5
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136AN ENGLISH EPIC. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 11 August 1925, Page 5
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