THE KING OF THE BELGIANS SPEAKING.
The Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled by Field-Marshal Lord Plumer and dedicated by the Right Rev. Dr L. H. Gwynne at Ypres in the presence of the King of the Belgians and numbers of ex-service men and relatives of the fallen. The dedication under the figure of the lion reads as follows: “To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918, and to those of their dead who have no known grave.” -Central News, photo.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3834, 6 September 1927, Page 40
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86THE KING OF THE BELGIANS SPEAKING. The Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled by Field-Marshal Lord Plumer and dedicated by the Right Rev. Dr L. H. Gwynne at Ypres in the presence of the King of the Belgians and numbers of ex-service men and relatives of the fallen. The dedication under the figure of the lion reads as follows: “To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918, and to those of their dead who have no known grave.” -Central News, photo. Otago Witness, Issue 3834, 6 September 1927, Page 40
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