BATTLE OF ARNHEM COMMEMORATED
MEMORIAL UNVEILED BY QUEEN WILHELMINA (Special CorrtiponCnl N.Z.PAI LONDON. September 17. To mark the second anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, relatives of men who died there and survivors of the Ist Air-borne Division made a pilgrimage to Holland to attend the unveiling to-day oi a memorial to the British dead. The memorial, which was unveiled by Queen Wilhelmina, stands outsld. the hotel which Major-General R. E. Urquhart used es his headquarters. Queen Wilhelmina laid the flrat wreath on the memorial, and resident* of the village, -in spite of food rationing, made great preparations to entertain the party of 210 British pilgrims which sailed from Harwich on September 15. The expenses of the perry are being paid by the Air-borne Forcaa* Security Fund. A commemorative parade was held at Salisbury, where many of the men received their early training, and in London members of the Ist Air-borne Division, many of them still in uni- , form, laid a wreath on the Cenotaph,
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24984, 19 September 1946, Page 5
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