MEMORIAL TO EARL OF YPRES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 258, 31 October 1925, Page 15

MEMORIAL TO EARL OF YPRES.

CHAPEL IN FRANCE. FOR WAR GRAVE PILGRIMS. As a memorial from the nation to the late Earl of Ypres. it is proposed that a chapel for war fraves pilgrims should be erected in Ypres. The project is outlined in a letter signed by Field-Marshal Lord Plumer and Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney. just published. The letter states.----"It appears to us that the late FieldMarshal's wishes should be our guide as to the form the memorial should take. At Ypres last year, on August 4, the tenth anniversary of the opening of hostilities, he referred to one pious and patriotic work that remained to be done, in that ther6 was no English church for the many pilgrims that came from home and overseas to visit the places where .our dear soldiers have been laid to rest. We propose the erection of an army chapel to which all can go irrespective of denomination. "The authorities at Ypres have generously offered us a site on the ramparts close to the Lille Gate. "With our memorial to the missing, on which 60.000 names are being inscribed at the Menin Gate, and the memorial to our great Field-Marshal Commander-in-Chief at the Lille Gate, future generations will be made to realise the importance of the town of Ypres and the Ypres Salient, where a quarter of a million of their forefathers gave their lives for King and country."