BRITAIN AT ARRAS
(Beceivcd Ist August, 1 p.m.)
PARIS, 31st July. Arras Is crowded with British, including many widows and children, for the unveiling of the memorial to the dead and missing whoso graves are unknown. Lord Trenchard at the unveiling recalled that nearly thirty-five thousand British were missing and killed chiefly in the successful offensive of 1917 and the hard-fought defensive of 1918.
,The Air Force memorial is situated about the centre of the British front. It commemorates the men who struggled with gallant' opponents for the mastery of the air and died in. allparts of the "Western Front or far beyond over Germany "and went home through the heights." -
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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111BRITAIN AT ARRAS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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