MEMORIAL AT THIEPVAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 205, 30 July 1932, Page 7

MEMORIAL AT THIEPVAL.

UNVEILING NEXT MONDAY. MOVING INSCRIPTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 28. The Prince of Wales will on Monday unveil at Tlieipval, in the heart of the Sommo battlofiolds, a momorial to over 70,C00 British soldiers who died in that area, but who have no known graves. As tho ■ unveiling ceremony is proceeding, disabled ex-service men will scatter in the Anglo-French cemetery where the memorial stands the ashes of the little wooden crosses placed among tlio poppies in the British Legion’s Field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey each Armistice Day. SVhen the Prince reaches Tlieipval he will inspect .the French guard of honour, and will receive tho French President, M. Lebrun, who will deliver an address after the memorial lias been unveiled. The memorial will bear the following moving inscription:—“To the glory of God and in grateful memory of 73,367 soldiers who gave their lives on the Somme battlefields in tlie service of their King , and country, but who have no known grave, we dedicate this memorial, praying that, inspired by the example . of these our brothers, we who remain may give our lives in service and sacrifice for the progress of humanity so that we be not ashamed when we’meet with them beyond the grave.”