HEROIC EXPLORERS.
MEMORIAL UNVEILED. SCOTT AND MIS GALLANT COMRADES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT (Received Aug. 11, 12.36 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 10. A national memorial to the dead of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1912 was unveiled at Devonport. There was an immense gathering. Commodore Charles- Royd, a member of Scott’s first Antarctic expedition, unveiled the memorial, and asked the Mayor of Plymouth to accept its custody. He suggested that the children of the local school should be brought into its shadow to hear the story ef the expedition as an example. Those who laid Wfeaths on the memorial included Mrs Hilton Young, Master Peter Scott and the surviving officers of the Discovery. The monument is a granite pylon, surmounted by a bronzie grouipe representing courage, sustained by patriotism, spurning fear or despair of death. —Reuter. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 August 1925, Page 9
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