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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19818, 4 January 1930, Page 17

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CROSSES PROM WAR GRAVES. NEW LAMPS OF MAINTENANCE. (Thou OUB oW* CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, November 28. At a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey, on December 7th, twelve wooden crosses from the graves of soldiers who fell in France will be handed over to certain branches of Toe H (Talbot House) for perpetual preservation. Two will be from the grave of Gilbert Talbot, after whom the famous Ypres hostel was named. One of these will be given to All Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower, the Toe H. church, and the other will go to a branch at Leeds, where Talbot was born. The other ten crosses are from the graves of Unknown Soldiers who fell in France or Flanders. Nothing is known of the individual man buried, but in each case the regiment to which he was attached ia known, and the cross will be handed to a Toe H branch in the regiment's own county. The crosses have been officially replaced by gravestones, and would be burnt if not used for commemorative purposes. Parent Lamp of Wales. The Prince of Wales will again attend a Saturday night gathering at the Albert Hall to light Lamps of Maintenance for over 40 new branches, including centres as far away as Valparaiso and Cawnpore. One new lamp —in silver in memory of Sir Sidney Byass—is to be the Parent Lamp of All the lamps will be kindled from the perpetual flame of the Prince of Wales's own lamp, which he gave in memory of his friends who fell in the war, and which is kept at All Hallows. It is understood that the service for ! the thanksgiving gathering at Westminster Abbey has been written by the Founder Padre (the Rev. R. B. Clayton), and is in the form of a long meditation.