ABBAS AND THE SOME
OFFICIAL CEREMONIES
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 29ta July. Air Field Marshal Lord Trenchard will, at Arras on Sunday, unveil a memorial bearing the names of 34,921 officers and men of the British Empire who, between the spring of 1916 and August, 1918, died ia the Arras neighbourhood, but whose graves are not known. .With it is a memorial to over 1000 men of the British Air Force who lie in nameless graves on the "Western Front. .
Monday's ceremony at .Thiepval, when tho Prince of Wales will unveil a memorial to officers and men. from all parts of the Empire who. lie in unknown graves in the Somme area, will be broadcast in Britain, France, Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and the United States. The Somme Memorial bears 73,357 names.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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132ABBAS AND THE SOME Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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