GUARDS’ MEMORIAL.
DESPERATE BATTLES RECALLED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 22. The or unite cross that has been erected "at Les Bomfs, on the fetoinme, in, place of the wooden, cross that was phi cedi there after the big buttes at I,e- -BoeniV? and Gincliy in September. 1916. was unveiled in the presence ol 13') officers and men of the Guards Division; , • _ ~ Major-General Sir Geoffrey Fe.ldmg, who commanded the Guards Division m the Somme battles, recalled the history of the fighting in this sector, emphasisi:no- t-hp terrible nature of the bathos owing to the gigantic defence works the Germans had built up. He told how no fewer than 230 officers and <OOO Guardsmen died. ... At the conclusion of the unvoting ceremony, the Mayor of Ginchy accepted the memorial on behalf of his community. . , , The Rev. Pat. McCormack, neetor_ ,ol St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, b-le ised the memorial. . General the Earl of Cavan “ad ,v wreath on behalf of the Rang. Other wreaths were deposited by LieutenantCdlonel O’Neil Latham on be hah ol the Prince of Wales, by Colon*. Seymour for the Duke or Connaught, ami by officers of each of the Guards regiments.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1928, Page 7
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195GUARDS’ MEMORIAL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1928, Page 7
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