THE GUARDS.
TRIBUTE TO FALLEN. memorial on somme. (BRITISH OyPICIAL WIBBLESS.) (Received October 22nd, 8.5 p.m.) RUGBY, October 20. Next Sunday a moving little ceremony will take place near Les Boeufs, on the Somme. A. simple granite cross has been erected at the head of the sunken road leading in to Les Boeufs, replacing the rotting wooden cross which was put up by the British Guards Division in memory of their fallen comrades »fter the two great battles on the Somme in 1916. One hundred and thirty officers and men of the present Guards Division, Grenadiers, Coldstrcams, Scots, Irish, and Welsh, will be drawn up around the cross to assist in its dedication, which will be performed by the Eev. Pat MeCormick, rector of St. Martins-in-the-Ficlds, London, who waß senior chaplain to the Guards Division in 1916. Major-General Sir Geoffrey Fielding, who commanded the Guards Division in the Somme battles, will be present.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 9
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153THE GUARDS. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19448, 23 October 1928, Page 9
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