COURAGE—SPURNING FEAR.
SCOTT NATIONAL MEMORIAL. IReceived This Day, 11.55 a.m.) , LONDON, August 10. A national memorial to the* dead of Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1912 was unveiled at Dcvonport in the presence of 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 schools should be brought into the shadow of the memorial to hear the story of the expedition as an example." Those who laid wreaths included Mrs ' r ,i 11 0: i Yeung (Captain Scott’s widow), Master Peter Scott and the surviving officers of,the Discovery. The monument is a granite pylon surmounted by a bronze group representing Courage, sustained by Patriotism, and spurning Fear or Despair ' of Death.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1925, Page 3
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