WAR HORRORS FORGOTTEN.
ENGLAND PAYS HOMAGE. HONOUR TO GERMANY'S DEAD. CEREMONY AT BIRMINGHAM. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, November 15. . Representatives of Britain and Germany for the first time anywhere in England, paid a joint tribute to Germany's dead at Birmingham. Miss Lily Keylock, aged nine years, the fatherless child of a British soldier, accompanied by Dr. Meynen, from the German Embassy, laid a wreath on one of the graves in which 24 German soldiers lie buried in Birmingham. The ceremony of depositing the wreath was preceded by a procession of 25,000 people, including many bereaved persons and maimed soldiers, members of the British Legion and territorials. The procession halted at the entrance to the cemetery. General Ludlow, commander of the Territorials, warmly shook hands with Dr. Meynen. All then participated in an open-air memorial service. • Both British and German dead are buried in the same cemetery. The wreath was inscribed: "Here on the resting place of those who sleep far from their Fatherland, for which they died, this wreath was laid as a gentle homage by an English child."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 16 November 1926, Page 7
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180WAR HORRORS FORGOTTEN. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 16 November 1926, Page 7
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