"LAST POST."
BATTLE ANNIVERSARIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 20. Beginning yesterday, the anniversary of the commencement of the Battle of Loos the "Last Post" was sounded by a member of the staff of the Imperial War Graves Commission every evening at the Loos memorial to the missing. The "Last Post" is sounded each evening at the Menin Gate, Ypres, which bears the names of those who died in defence of that salient, and similar arrangements will be made at the Thiepval memorial when it is completed this SU Up l to the end of August 100,000 visitors had signed the visitors' books kept in the British war cemeteries 111 1 ranee and Belgium.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 229, 27 September 1930, Page 9
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