MEMORIAL AT CHATHAM
TO THOSE WHO PERISHED IN NAVAL SERVICE UNVEILED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES (Rec. April 28, 1.5 a.m.) London, April 2G. The Prince of AVales unveiled at Chatham one of three memorials erected at British ports to th© memory of 25,363 men and women who perished in the naval service of the Great AVar. The memorial at Chatham contains 8543 names. The Prince of Wales said it was impossible to erect a monument to thjpso heroes similar to the battlefields in France and on Gallipoli, for all the seas of the world were their battlefield and their grave. Through the victory won by their sacrifice the ships of 'Britain still sailed to the uttermost ends of the earth. —Reuter-
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 28 April 1924, Page 7
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