BRITISH COMMONWEALTH WAR MEMORIAL IN GREECE UNVEILED.—Photographs taken at the Phaleron war cemetery, near Athens, last week, when the Duke of Gloucester unveiled a memorial to 2900 Commonwealth soldiers who died 20 years ago in Greece and the Greek islands and who have no known graves. The names of 481 New Zealanders are included on the inscribed marble tablets. LEFT: A general view of the ceremony. RIGHT: The King of Greece receiving General Lord Freyberg, V.C. (right), who commanded the Allied forces in Crete in 1941 and who has been hailed in Greece as the “Hero of Crete.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 20
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98BRITISH COMMONWEALTH WAR MEMORIAL IN GREECE UNVEILED.—Photographs taken at the Phaleron war cemetery, near Athens, last week, when the Duke of Gloucester unveiled a memorial to 2900 Commonwealth soldiers who died 20 years ago in Greece and the Greek islands and who have no known graves. The names of 481 New Zealanders are included on the inscribed marble tablets. LEFT: A general view of the ceremony. RIGHT: The King of Greece receiving General Lord Freyberg, V.C. (right), who commanded the Allied forces in Crete in 1941 and who has been hailed in Greece as the “Hero of Crete.” Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 20
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