IN MEMORIAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17041, 24 December 1918, Page 1

IN MEMORIAM.

LAKE.— In loving memory of SergeantMajor Albert Edward Lake, killed in action its Belgium on December 24, 1917. lie Heard tho bugle call And to duty ho would go. Ho was a soldier brave and true And one of tho very best-. In a distant land ho lies At rest in a soldiers' grave. His battle fought, his name enrolled On tho scroll of the deathless brave. —Inserted by his loving wife and daughter, Annie and Ruby Lake. Rotorua. * ' PORRITT.— T n loving remembrance, of Jonathan Oswald Porntt, who was killed in France on December 24, 1917. After warfare— peace. PORRITT.— fond remembrance of mv Gear, friend. Gunner Jonathan Oswald (Jacki Porntt. N Z.F.A., killed in action on December 21. 1917. Ever reiremberei. —Inserted by M. Serine. TODD. -In levin* memory of mv dear husband. Rifleman John Matthew Todd Earl of Liverpool's Own. P. Company, First Battenon, who was killed in action at Mutrah, Egypt, it Christmas Day engagement, 1915: also, my dear nephew, Gunner G. H. Coldicutt, died of wounds in France, April 28. 19150 banner of Jesus in triumph, advancing, Thy folds in the sunlight of beauty unfurled. From the hillsides afar to tho isles of tho ocean. Thy glory shall float till it conquers tho world. Oh, say. cm too see where tho ranks aro now marching, With banners of beauty like conquerors they come. They hare fought t'ua jood fight, and in peace are returning. Behold where they stnnd on green hills immortal, Their weapons unheeded, they rest on tho shore, There, with heroes in glory reposing, Their warfare i.-. ended, they weary no more. There we'll meet on the homeland shore. —Inserted by his loving wife and aunt, E Todd, Chapman Street, Newton. WEIR.— loving memory of our dear son and brother. Sergeant S. F. Weir, hilled in action. December 25. 1915. at Mem Mutruh. Thy will be done, ', —Inserted by his loving parents, sisters, ..,*. and brothers.