DEFENCE OF ANTWERP.
MEMORIAL TO BRITISH SOLDIERS
(British Official Wireless). RUGBY, July 2
A memorial which beaus the names of 564 British soldiers with unidentified graves w-a® unveiled yesteiday by Lieut.-General Sir George MaoDonougli. It iia in honciur of the British officers and men who took pant in the defence of Antwerp in 1914, and in the defence of the Belgian coast during 1917, and who have no known graves. Sir George said although the war was so long over, the feeling of respect and affection between the British and Belgian peoples it had fostered would always continue.
M. Henri Ja.spar, the Belgian Prime Minister, said Belgium would always feel gratitude for the British and would never forget that bodies of British soldiers whose blood was spilled for the maintenance of Flemish freedom lay in Belgian soil.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 July 1928, Page 7
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