ON THE YPRES SALIENT

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 5

ON THE YPRES SALIENT

A GROSS OF SACRIFICE WHERE FRITZ HAD BLOCKHOUSES By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Anst. ancl N.Z. Cable). (Received June 20, 9.20 a..m.) London, June 10. A. message i'raip Vpres states that Mr Dye,ft, of Australia, unveiled ttie Cross of Sacrifice fnemorial at Tynecot erected in memory of 35,000 ot the British Empire’s dead killed in (lie later actions on the Ypros salient* many having no known graves.

The nucleus of the cemetery is a few battle graves round the highest of several of the German concrete blockhouses in the centre of the heaviest lighting ‘area. I here is a New Zealnad group of graves.