GERMAN WAR GRAVES

Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 5

GERMAN WAR GRAVES

A MEMORIAL SERVICE BIRMINGHAM'S HOMAGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 14. Lily Keylock, aged nine, whose father was killed in the war, accompanied by Dr Meynen, from the Germany Embassy, laid a wreath on one of the graves in which twenty-four German soldiers were buried _at Birmingham. The wreath was inscribed: “Here, on the resting-place of those who sleep far from the Fatherland, for which they died, this wreath was laid as gentle homage by an English child.” This is the first time that representatives’ qf England and Germany anywhere in, England have paid a joint tribute to the German dead. The ceremony of depositing the wreath was preceded by a procession of 25,00 :| persons, including hundreds who were bereaved by the war, many maimed ox-soldiers, members of the British Legion, and a detachment of Territorials. The procession halted at the entrance to the cemetery, where General Ludlow, the commander of the Territorials, warmly shook hands with Dr Meynen. AH then participated in an open-air memorial service. The dead of both nations are buried in tho samo cemetery. -