TOLL OF 1914.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19459, 5 November 1928, Page 10

TOLL OF 1914.

THE BRITISH DEAD.

MEMORIAL IN FRANCE.

(BRITISH OmCIAL WIMLB88.) (Received November 4th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 2. laeuiE.-General Sir William Pulteney will unveil on Sunday a memorial erected at Laferte-sous-Jouarre in honour of the British Expeditionary Force and to record the names of 3888 officers and men who fell in operations at Mons and the Marne, and the Aisne in 1914, and have no known graves. Field-Marshal Sir George Milne, Chiet of the Imperial General Staff, and General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien will be present. Marshal Foch and General Weygand will also attend. A guard of honour numbering over 100 officers and men will be commanded by Colonel Heywood of the Coldstream Guards, and in its constitution will be a body of exceptional distinction. It will include one representative of every regiment or corps which figures in the composition of the original British Expeditionary Force. Every man in it took part in the operations of 1914 in ranks of his unit and is still serving to-day. Many constituent corps have been disbanded, such as the famous Irish regiments, but representatives of these corps have been found serving in other corps and on the day of the ceremony they will attend, wearing the uniform of the unit in whose ranks they fought in 1914.