MEMORIALS TO BE ERECTED
PLAN FOR NORTH AFRICA
London, August 17
New Zealanders will be commemorated in a chain of memorials honouring Allied men who gave their lives in North Africa, which is to be built amid the scenes of three years’ campaigns. A well-known Manchester architect. Mr John Hubert Worthington, with sketch-book and pencil, is retracing the Eighth Army’s battles and marches from El Alamein to Tunis and planning the memorials.
Mr Worthington, who designed many fine buildings, has been commissioned to rebuild the bombed Inner Temple and Middle Temple, London. He looks upon his African task —undertaken as advising architect to the War Graves Commission —as the hardest of his career.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13228, 19 August 1943, Page 5
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