YPRES SALIENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 7

YPRES SALIENT.

Cross of Sacrifice to Empire

Dead.

NEW ZEALAND NAMES.

(Received 10 a.m.)

YPRES, June 19

Mr. Gilbert Dyett, chairman of the British Empire Service League, unveiled a Cross of Sacrifice Memorial at Tynecot. The memorial was erected to the memory of 35,000 of the Empire dead who were killed in the later actions in the Tpres salient, many of whom have no known graves. The nucleus of the cemetery is a few battle graves round the highest of several German concrete blockhouses, which were the centre of the heaviest fighting. Over these a war cross has been erected. A wall surrounding the graves contains a war stone inscribed, Their name liveth for evermore," and bearing panels with the names of the killed, supplementing those inscribed on the Menin Gate. A small semi-circular apse is consecrated to the New Zealand dead. Amongst those present were many members of the Service League, the burgomasters of Passchendaele and Zonnebeke and many inhabitants. The Rev. F. Molyneux blessed the cross and burglars sounded the Last Post and the Reveille. "Known Only Unto God." The cemetery's known graves include five winners of the Victoria Cross, also 1344 Australians and 50$ New Zealanders. The apse is inscribed with the names of 1179 New Zealanders who fell in the battle of Broodseinde and the' first battle of Paschendaele, and on the whole of the graves is the inscription, "Known only unto God."—(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.") In an account of the part played by "The Smashing Victory of Broodseinde" in the attack on the Passchendaele Ridge, a history of the Great War says "The New Zealanders worked forward ae rapidly and skilfully as they had done at Messines. On the level ground men stuck in the fearful mud up to their knees; iu the shell-holes they went up to their belts. Their barrage went ahead of them and was almost lost, but the men from the happy islands struggled against the mud like athletes in the coils of pythons, and by a magnificent combination of strength and agility caught up with their barrage, and under its protection won a complete and rapid victory. However, in order to help France and then to assist Italy, the British Army had to plunge again into the most dreadful conditions of battle in military history, and wade in mud and blood to 'the northern end of the low, insignificant, tragic ridge."