HONORED DEAD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 6

HONORED DEAD.

UNKNOWN GRAVES OF BRITISH HEROES IN FRANCE. UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL. ’ HISTORIC GUARD OF “OLD CONTEMPTIBLES” (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 4. Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Pultendy to-day unveiled a memorial erected at Laferte-sous-Jouarre in honor of the British Expeditionary Force, and to record the names of 3883 officers and men who fell in the operations ,n Mons, the Marne, and Aisno in 1914, and have no known graves) Field-Marshal Sir George Milne, chief of the Imperial General Stall’, and General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, were present. Marshal Foeh and General Weygand also attended. A guard of honor numbering over IPO officers and men was commanded bv Cblonel Hey wood, of the Coldstream Guards, and in its constitution was a body of exceptional distinction. It included one representative of every regiment of corps which figured in the composition of the original British Expeditionary Force. Every man in it took part in operations in 1914 in the ranks- of his unit, and/ is - still serving _to-day. , Marry constituent corps. Have been disbanded' such a*s’ the’famous Irish regiments, hut representatives of these corps were found serving in other corps, and they attended, wearing tjio uniform of the unit in whose., ranks they fought in 1914.

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Sir Wilbam Fulteney paid a tribute to British and French valor and strategy in checking the- German advance in probably the most, critical period of the war, , ensuring the safety of Paris. He also paid a tribute to the historic engineering feat of the British Fourth Division, in . constructing, under intense fire, a floating bridge and enabling pursuit of the enemy, and relieving the pressure on the flank. of the 1 Sixth French Army, stating: ‘‘ there was no other place in the war where mutual assistance of the Allies of such paramount importance and success was so finely exemplified.”