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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 14

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CROSSES FROM WAR GRAVES. NEW LAMPS OF MAINTENANCE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 2S. At a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey, on December 7, 12 wooden crosses from the graves of soldiers who fell in France will be handed over to certain branches of Toch t (Talbot House) for perpetual preservation. Two will be from the grave of Gilbert Talbot, after whom the famous Yprcs hostel was named. One of these will be given to AH Hallows, Barking-by-the-Tower, the Toe II church, and the other will go to a branch at Leeds, where Talbot was born. The other ten crosses are from the graves of unknown soldiers who fell in France or Flanders. Nothing is known of the individual man buried, but in each case the regiment to which ho was attached is known, and the cross will be handed to a Toe H branch in the regiment’s own county. The crosses have been officially replaced by gravestones, and would be burnt if not used for commemorative purposes. PARENT LAMP OF WALES.

The Prince of Wales will again attend a Saturday night gathering at the Albert Hall to light lamps of maintenance for over 40 new branches, including centres as far away as Valparaiso and Cawnpore. One new lamp—in silver in memory of Sir Sidney Byass—is to be the parent lamp of Wales. Ail the lamps will be kindled from the perpetual dame of the Prince of Wales’s own lamp, which he gave in memory of his friends who fell in the war, and which is kept at All Hallows. It is under-stood that the service for the thanksgiving gathering at Westminster Abbey has been written by the Founder Padre (the Rev. R. B. Clayton), and is in the form of a long meditation.