HONOURING “THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES”

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 11

HONOURING “THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES”

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(Australian Press Association.)

Rugby, November 3.

Lieut.-General Sir William I’ulteney will unveil on Sunday a memorial erected at Laferte-Sous-Jouarre in honour of tlie British Expeditionary Force and to record the names of 3888 officers and men who fell in the operations at Mons, the Marne and the Aisne in 1914 and have no known graves. Field-Marshal Sir George Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and General Sir Horace Smith Dorrien will be present. Marshal Koch 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 of the Corps which figured in the composition of the original British Expeditionary Force. Every man in it took part in the opcratons in 1914 in the 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 iu 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.