WREATH OF REMEMBRANCE
FROM UNKNOWN WARRIOR’S TOMB. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 4. With impressive ceremony, the wreath which is sent annually by the Auckland Diocesan Mothers’ Union to be placed on the Unknown Warrior's tomb in Westminster Abbey, and which was this year brought back to Auckland, was blessed by Archbishop Avcril) to-day and placed on St. Mary's Cathedral memorial, its last resting place. The cathedral was packed with members of the union and the next-of-kin of those who served in the war. The wreath was down the aisle by Captain A. C. Sexton and Captain E. IT. Sharp, president and secretary respectively ot the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association. The “ Last Post ” was sounded and while the congregation remained standing Archbishop Averill blessed the wreath. In a brief address following the ceremony. the Archbishop said that the placing of (lie Mothers’ Union wreath in its last resting place in the cathedral was a tribute of love and honour from the mothers of New Zealand to all who had died for what they believed to he the right, and also to the mothers who shared in the suffering of their loved one*.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20892, 5 December 1929, Page 11
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