HONOURING THE EMPIRE’S UNKNOWN DEAD. The dedication of the cemetery at Tyne Cot, Passchendale, was performed by the Rev. M. Mullineux, M.C., of the St. Barnabas Mission, and the unveiling of the Cross of Sacrifice by Captain G. J. C. Dyett, President of the Australian Returned Soldiers’ Association. Surrounding the graves is a wall with panels inscribed with the names of 35,000 officers and men who fell in the Ypres battles and whose graves are not known. Part of the wall is consecrated to the New Zealand dead. The picture shows Captain Dyett unveiling the Cross. —Central Press, photo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3834, 6 September 1927, Page 41
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99HONOURING THE EMPIRE’S UNKNOWN DEAD. The dedication of the cemetery at Tyne Cot, Passchendale, was performed by the Rev. M. Mullineux, M.C., of the St. Barnabas Mission, and the unveiling of the Cross of Sacrifice by Captain G. J. C. Dyett, President of the Australian Returned Soldiers’ Association. Surrounding the graves is a wall with panels inscribed with the names of 35,000 officers and men who fell in the Ypres battles and whose graves are not known. Part of the wall is consecrated to the New Zealand dead. The picture shows Captain Dyett unveiling the Cross. —Central Press, photo. Otago Witness, Issue 3834, 6 September 1927, Page 41
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