NEARING COMPLETION
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL (British Official Wireless.) Roc. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 7. The memorial erected at Tower Hill, London, by all the -Governments of the Empire, through the Empire War Graves Commission, is nearing completion. The memorial commemorates the names of 12,000 officers and men oi the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets who lost their lives at sea through enemy action, and have no grave but the sea. • It is hoped that the Queen will unveil the memorial on December 12.
The nfemorial has been designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and is a counterpart to those erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, to the missing of the Royal Navy, and to the Menin Gate and other memorials erected on -battlefields abroad.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 7
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