MEMORIALS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 July 1923, Page 5

MEMORIALS.

TO NEW ZEALAXDE.ES

BY CABLB—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, July 16. Lord Liverpool unveiled a marble tablet to the memory of the New Zealand;e.rs fallen in the battles of the Somme in. $ih& Amiens Cathedral at the conclusion of a morning mass for ihe dead. The ,xsemorial is attached to a column at the vU«ad of the nave, and is inscribed; "To :thp glory of God, and to the memory of the New Zealanders who fell in the battles of the Somme, 1916----1917." '!F&e inscription is repeated in French.

The New Zealand party came from Le Quesnoy.

At the unveilingl of the memorial to the New Zeala«ders in the Amiens Cathedral, the B&sbop of Amiens, in. an eloquent speech in French eulogising New Zealand's sacrifices, said the walls of the ancient Cathedral abased themselves before the scSemn manifestation of friendship. The'aaames of the New Zealand heroes were (inscribed on the hearts of the 1 people of Amiens, whose gratitude would ever g3sw:d their memory.

Afterwards the Prefect <?f Sonime, with the Mayor and CommatKiier of the Second French Army Corps and clergy, lunched with Sir James Allen and party, when the French army and the New Zealand defence forces were toasted^