LATE LORD PLUMER

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 7

LATE LORD PLUMER

burial: in the abbey.

(British Official Wireless.)

EUGBY, 16th. July,

The "War Office, announced to-night that the burial as well as the funeral service of the late Field-Marshal iViscount Plumer, who, died this morning, will take place at Westminster Abbey on Wednesday morning.

NEW ZEALAND'S MESSAGE

(By. Telegraph.-l-ress Association.)

AUCKLAND, 18th July. The following message has, been dispatched by. "the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, to the Secretary of State for Dominion . Affairs in connection with the death of Field-Marshal 'Viscount Plumer:— . ■-~ '.'.'i ■

"On behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand I desire to ex-' press profound regret on the death, of Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer, one of the Empire's most distinguished soldiers, and to ask that their sympathy may be conveyed to his widow- and family. By none will his loss be more deeply aourned than by the military forces of this Dominion, and members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who served under his command in the army during a critical -period of the Great War." ;