HONOUR FOR FALLEN.
Soissons Memorial To Britain's Dead Soldiers. AISNE AND MARNE BATTLES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 11. Another stage in the task of the Imperial War Graves Commission will be completed when on July 22 General Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon will unvtii at Soissons a memorial to the British soldiers who fell in the war at the Aisne and the Marne in 1918. The work of the Commission includes that of seeing that the name of every soldier who died in France is somewhere inscribed in permanent formation. In most cases the names are on stonts, but those of unknown soldiers, whose bodies have not been located or have not been identified, are commemorated on the walls of cemeteries or on memorials. The sculpture of the Soissons memorial is the work of Mr. Eric Henri Kennington and is extremely impressive.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 7
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