WAR MEMORIALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18331, 22 February 1923, Page 9

WAR MEMORIALS.

\ . ■ —| —■ «► , LONGUEVAL 'AND QUESNOY. I TRIBUTE TO DOMINION'S DEAD. The Government has received from France handsome models of the : war , memorials erected at Longueval and Le Quesnoy to the men of * the New. Zealand Division who fell on , the Western front; , also a '-;, fine series of ' photographs .' and , water-colour drawings of the memorials. The ' Longueval * monument ■is in '■' the , form of a tall obelisk or cenofSph, v with a laurel wreath: at the top, and a medal-, lion bearing a fern-leaf and 1 the words New Zealand " at the ; base. ;? On the obelisk appear, in French and■ English, the following inscriptions:-—" In honour of the men of the New Zealand Division. First battle of the Somme, 1916 "The New: Zealand Division, after gaining this fiosition jas their first objective, launched rom it!; the successful attack on Fiefs, 15th September ,1916;" and "New Zealand Division—Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago." '■? A ; coloured plan shows the beautiful lay-but, > with shrubs, trees, and pathways of . the . ground, around the monument.:' ; - ■".■■ ■'..■* t s-r ; The. vLe ' Quesnoy memorial ' takes the form of a marble tablet let into '; the wall of the city at the spot where \ the New Zealanders crossed X the moat. and scaled the wall, and on the opposite side of the moat is a handsome marble terrace ;or balustrade with .seats, overlooking the moat and the 1 tablet on the wall. ■ The tablet shows a tall and beautiful angel holding a laurel wreath above the heads of a number of New Zealandem 1 who are in the act : of; scaling: the wall; and it bears Hne inscription, "In honour of the men of New Zealand; through whose valour the town .of Le Quesnoy was restored to France, 4th November. 1918." On the wall off the i balustrade, as on the balustrade ericircl- i ing the lLongueval cenotaph; appear the i words. " From the uttermost ends of ' the earth." .;:■>.'£ ■ ■-r/'.v ;j ■".,'... The details of the Le Quesnoy tablet, and of ; the wreaths and medallions, on the Longueval memorial are sbown in big plaster casts as well as on the smaller models, The Le Quesnoy - model .shows the terrace, :; the ]\ moat v itself,: and 1 : the wall; with its marble tablet,'; and Y' : above the wall 'is a .fine oil-painting giving 'a very . vivid;. and pleasing representation of the view to be ; seen over ; the wall from the other side of the moat. : < v