PRINCE AND TOC H.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19608, 9 April 1927, Page 11

PRINCE AND TOC H.

MEMORIAL to soldier.

CEREMONY AT UNVEILING. (Received April 8, 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. juONDON, Apul 7. The Prince of Wales unveiled a memorial to Altred, the younger son of the former Governor-General of Australia, Lord Forster, in the Toe H chapel in All . Hallows Church, Barking. The memorial takes the form of a recumbent figure, and is a bronze replica ot the marble sculpture by Cecil Palmer, Mr. Forster's comrade in the Scots Greys, who was also a fellow-patient in the hospital where Mr. Forster died. Another bronze replica will be sent to the Toe H chapelin Newcastle Cathedral, New South Wales, where Australia's first perpetual lamp will .bo. lighted. The participants in the ceremony included the Rev. T. B. ("Tubby") Clayton and Bishop Talbot, formerly Bishop of Winchester, the father of the officer in whose honour Toe H was founded.

The congregation included Lord and Lady Forster, Mrs. Eustace Forster, < the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Rowland Blades, M.P., the Governor of the Tower of London, Field-Marshal Lord Metbueri, and Mr. Laurence Binyon. the poet. The memorial bears neither name nor date, nor any inscription except a stanza from Mr. Binyon's poem on England's Dead, which is inscribed on all the Toe H lamps. • . ' - It was Lord Forster'a desire that the memorial should be purely symbolical and impersonal. The Prince also unveiled in the chapel a flag brought home by the Australian delegates..