MEMORIAL AT GALLIPOLI
TO BE UNVEILED TO-MORROW,
Press Association.—By Telegraph—Copyright,
LONDON, May 8. The steamer Ormonde has’ left Toulon with 800 passengers for a Mediterranean cruise. The steamer will arrive at Gallipoli on Tuesday, where most of the company is landing to witness the unveiling of the New Zealand summit stone war memorial at Chunuk Bair, which is 856 feet high. General Sir Alexander Godley, whom the Turks are permitting to wear full uniform, will unveil the monument. Sir James Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Alfred Russell, and the Rev. M. Mulineux will participate. The last-named will dedicate the memorial, which, in the form of a Greek cross, is visible from the Narrows and the Aegean Sea. The tablet, which is of Nebrisina marble, is on the south face, and is inscribed: “In honour of the soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, August 8, 1915.” Mr Hurst Seager designed the memorial.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19476, 11 May 1925, Page 9
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