MEMORIAL AT TYNECOT
A CROSS OF SACRIFICE
"THEY LRE EVERMORE"
(United Press Association.-Copyright) (Received 20th June, 11 a.m.)
YPRES, 19th June.
Captain Dyett (president of tho Australian Soldiers' 'League) unveiled the Cross of Sacrifice Memorial at Tynecot, erected in memory of 35,000 Empire dead who were killed in the later actions on the Ypres salient, many having no known graves. The nucleus of the cemetery was a. few battle graves round the highest of several concrete German blockhouses, which were, the centre of the, heaviest fighting, ovor which a- war cross was erected. The wall surrounding tho graves contains a stone, inscribed "Their names liveth ever more,'' and also panels on which the names of those killed has been inscribed, supplementing those already inscribed at the Meniri Gate. A small, semi-circular apse has also' been consecrated to the New Zealand dead.
Those present at the'ceremony included many members ,of:the Service League, burgomasters of Passehendaele ana Zonnebeke," end many inhabitants of those towns. The Eev. F. Molyneux, one of the most celebrated of tho British padregjV blessed the cross, and buglers sounded "The last Post" and '.'The Reveille."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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187MEMORIAL AT TYNECOT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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