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MEMORIAL AT TYNECOT NEW ZEALANDERS INCLUDED (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received June 20. 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. A message from Ypres states.that General Dyett unveiled a Cross of Sacrifice memorial at Tynecot, erected in memory pf 3500 Empire dead killed in .the later actions of the Ypres salient, many having no known graves. The nucleus of the cemetery is a few battle graves round the highest of several concrete German blockhouses, the centre ,of the heaviest- fighting, over which the war cross has been erected. The wall surrounding the graves contains a. stone inscribed; “Their names livotli evermore’-’ ; also panels ■containing the names of killed supplementing those inscribed at Menin .Gate.
A small semi-circular apse was .consecrated to the memory of New Zealand dead.
Those present included members of the: Empire Service League, the burgomasters of Pascheudaele and Zonnebeke, and many inhabitants. The Rev. F. Molyneux blessed the cross and buglers sounded “The Last Post,” and the reveille.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 8
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