THE GALLANT DEAD
NEW CEMETERY OPENED. IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, October 22. General Sir Neville Macready and General La CapeUe opened the Great War Cemetery at St. Omer, where 2800 British, Dominion, and Indian soldiers are buried alongside thousands of Frenchmen. Tho most impressive sight in the ceremony was the line of French car airy in blue uniforms, drawn up against the background of white memorial stones on either side of the pathway joining the Great Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance. General Macready, speaking in French from the steps of the Stone of Remembrance, made a touching speech, in which he recalled the brotherhood of Britain and France,vsrhich was born of danger, cemented with blood, and kept alive by the memory of the gallant dead.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11658, 24 October 1923, Page 6
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131THE GALLANT DEAD New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11658, 24 October 1923, Page 6
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