GREENWICH WAR MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 9

GREENWICH WAR MEMORIAL

NEW ZEALANDERS' GRAVES.

(From Our Own Corrtipondent.)

LONDON, 21st April. Sir James Allen, on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, attended the unveiling of the war memorial in Greenwich cemetery, Shooter's" Hill, on Sunday afternoon. The memorial takes the usual form of the tall cross with the crusader's sword thereon, and has been erected by the War Graves Commission in honour of 21 officers and 532 non-com-missioned officers and men of the Navy, Army, Air Force, and the Colonial Forces who died during the war and were buried in the cemetery.

The graves of two New Zealand soldiers are also in this cemetery—those of Second-Lieutenant H. J. Worsley and Private G. F. Hammond. Lieut. Worsley, of the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, came originally from Hamilton. He was wounded on 22nd September, 1910, in the Somme operations and evacuated to England. He was admitted to the hospital at Woolwich on 4th October, 1916, and died on 14th October. Private Hammond, of the New Zealand Infantry," joined the forces at Wellington. He was wounded in the Armentieres section on Bth July, 1916. On 11th July he was admitted to Woolwich Hospital, and died on 14th July.

Colonel H. S. tie Breit, C.8., C.M.G., D.5.0., Commanding the Woolwich Garrison, performed the unveiling ceremony, and the Rev. Canon F. W. Head, M.C., M.A., chaplain to His Majesty the King, gave the address of dedication. The Benediction was said by the Rev. F. J. Walker, Assistant Chaplain-General of the Forces. The hymns sung were "0 God, Our Help," and "Jesu, Lover of My Soul," and at ,the conclusion of the ceremony the Last Post and the "Reveille" were sounded.