WAR MEMORIALS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 28, 2 August 1921, Page 8

WAR MEMORIALS

SITE SELECTED AT GALLIPOLI

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 16th June. Immediately on his, return from Gallipoli, Eieutenaiit-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Woston has presented to the War Office a report of the .committee which was formed to advise on the bast site for the National Memorial at Gallipoli. Admiral Sir J. M. de Eobeck was to have been the representative of the Navy, but his official duties prevented his presence, so hiu place was taken by another naval officor of high rank. All the possible Kites at the south, end of the Peninsula were visited, with tho object of selecting that which wouldl most rivet the attention of travellers passing up the Dardanelles. Imbros, Mudros, and Suvla were too far out of the line of traffic; historic Anzac ds also away from the ordinary sailing course. Finally, it was determined to recommend an eminence 155 feet above, mean sea-levol, and approximately 500 yards north-east of the Cape 'Belles lighthouse. It is between the "V" and "W" beaches, which will bo landmarks in the history of the wonderful deeds performed by the Imperial forces in the Dardanelles.

Sir Aylmer also says that, while in Constantinople, he met the Turkish, War Minister and the chief staff officer of the army which fought the Allies in Gallipoli. Together thoy went over the campaign again with the 'aid of maps and the reports of the two sides. General Hunter-Western found himself confirmed in the impression that, though the Allies were never within measurable distance of breaking through, they rendered valuable assistance to the Allied effort as a whole. The Turks admit that in Gallipoli they lost 300,000.men in killed, wounded and sick, who would otherwise have been available! to face Allenby in Palestine and Maude in Mesopotamia. Thus Turkey was.crippled, and the faith, of the Turks in their German adviaere was badly ■shaken. LES QUESNOY. Mr. S. Hurst Seager has just returned from Paris, where he has made satisfactory a.rajigoments 1o proceed with the war memorial scheme at Les Quesnoy. A suitable sculptor has been chosen to execute the work, and all official difficulties have _ been surmounted. The High Commissioner, however, has not yet received the approval of the plans from the New Zealand Government, andl, until this is available, the matter is held up.