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IMMORTAL GUARDS.

MEMORIAL UNVEILED. MOST IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. '.Received 12 noon.) LONDON, October 17. Amid a most impressive silence and in the presence of a great throng, the Duke of Connaught unveiled a memorial to G52 officers and 14.MS men of the Guards Division erected in the Horse Guards Parade, from which the Household Brigade marched out to embark for France in August, 1014. fine thousand Guardsmen formed a square in which there were 12,000 bemedalled ex-Ouardsmcn in mufti and relatives of the fallen. The Duke of Connaught said that the Guards' bravery, endurance and discipline had been a most valuable example to the many noble divisions constituting the Empire's forces. He recalled that the Guards won 24 Victoria Crosses in France. A nn st picturesque portion of the solemn ceremony followed when the pipers -low-marched playing a lament. and busjlers sounded the" Last Tost and the Reveille. TL' Luke of Connaught placed the King's wreath, and the Prince of Wales and i Micr colonels deposited regimental v r "'' s. The Guardsmen slow-marched I ]*-■■■ '.' ■ memorial with colours dipping

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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 7

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IMMORTAL GUARDS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 7

IMMORTAL GUARDS. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 7