MEN WHO FELL

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 9

MEN WHO FELL

WAR MEMORIALS PILGRIMAGE TO FLANDERS (British Official Nows.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, July 22. (Received July 23, at 12.15 p.m.) ■ A great pilgrimage to Flanders began to-day, when relatives who lost sons or husbands in the grim fighting in the Ypres salient left London to witness tho unveiling of the Monin Gate Memorial on .Sunday by Field-marshal Lord Plumer. It has been built over the Menin road and inscribed with tbo names of. 53,000 men, of tho British .Army who were buried in nameless graves, It is estimated that 4,000 persons will make the journey to Menin Gate, and-of these 700 women are being taken' free through tho good offices of patriotic organisations. ' With Lord 'Plumer at the unveiling ceremony will be Sir George .Grahame (British Ambassador at Brussels, representing King George) and Sir Laming Worthington. Evans (Secretary for War, representing Rie British Government). To-day in Brussels Field-marshal Earl Haig unveiled at the Church of St. Gudule in Brussels a memorial tablet to 1,000,000 men of the British Empire who fell in Belgium during the war. A simple ,but impressive ceremony was attended by the Belgian Crown Prince and leading Belgian officials.