THE NAVAL HEROES.
TRIBUTE BY THE PRINCE. FRUITS OF THEIR SACRIFICE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received April 28, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, April 26. The Prince of AVales unveiled at Chatham one of the three memorials erected ut British ports to the memory of the 25,363 men and women who perished in the naval service during the Great War. The memorial at Chatham contains 8543 names. The Prince of Wales said that it was impossible to erect a monument to those heroes similar to those on the battlefields of Prance and Gallipoli for all the seas of the world were their battlefield and their grave. Through the victory.won by their sacrifice, the ships of Britain still sailed to the uttermost ends of the earth'.—Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1001, 28 April 1924, Page 5
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122THE NAVAL HEROES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1001, 28 April 1924, Page 5
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