Memorial to King Albert Unveiled
(Received noon.) BRUSSELS, July 24. . King Leopold unveiled, <at Nieuport, an equestrian statue 26 feet high, on a mounted pedestal, of his father, King Albert, who was killed while mountaineering in 1934. Belgian exservicemen subscribed £20,000 for the monument. The site marked the extreme limit of the German advance on the Yser sector.
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Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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