WAR MEMORIAL.
UNVEILED AT BIgENHEIM. (PRESS ISSOCIITIOK TILIOBAIC.) BLENHEIM, February 4The Marlborough Provincial War Memorial, a handsome tower, containing ,a chiming clock surmounting a Chamber of Memories, in which are.inscribed the names of 409 men who made the supreme sacrfice, wasunveiled to-day by Major-General Sir ' Andrew Russell, and dedicated by the local clergy in the presence of a record gathering from all parts of Marlborough. The ceremony was most impressive, concluding with the sounding of the Last Post and the placing at the base of the memorial of the wreaths from local organisations and relatives of the fallen.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19227, 6 February 1928, Page 11
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