WAR MEMORIALS
THE WEST FRONT FOUR UNVEILED Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 4. A requiem for thousands of the heroic dead was sounded by the voice of a trumpet to-day, when, on the sixteenth anniversary of Britain’s entry into the war, four monuments commemorating soldiers whoso resting places remain unknown were unveiled at Loos, Pozieres, Yisenartois, and Longuevalo. General Sir Nevil Macready, quoting Bunyan’s noble poem, ‘We Shall Remember Them,’ pointed out that most of those named on the Loos memorial belonged to the first hundred thousand men who came from England at the earliest call. General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien urnveiled the Pozieres memorial, with its 14,690 names. An impressive ritual of prayers, the ‘ Last Post,’ and minutes of silence, followed by the British and French national anthems, conferred a fitting uniformity upon each ceremony.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19300806.2.91
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 9
Word Count
136WAR MEMORIALS Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in