MEMORY REVERED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 5

MEMORY REVERED

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS FRENCH TOWN’S CEREMONY (Llec. Teb Copyright—United Press Assn.) PARIS, Aprfl 0:’ The Mayor of Yfilers Brctonucux, in welcoming the Australian representatives visiting the ... cemetery, said: “Your children lie buried in ground hallowed by their gallantry. We revere their memory equally* with our own dead.” Mr. Ferguson, one of the visiting Australians, said that he was amazed to see how rebuilding had changed the entire contour of the country from what it was when he fought within halt’ a mile of the spot. The Australians visited various cemeteries '.and memorials on the battlefields.

At the ceremony at Villcrs Bretonneux, France, to commemorate the anniversary of the Australian defence of the town, the Agent-General for Victoria, Mr. R. Linton, was to present the Mayor with an enlarged inscribed photograph of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance. The Mayor appealed for local subscriptions to defray the cost of recording the gratitude of the residents of the Somme town to the Australians ffiy : an inscribed “Rock, of Remembrance” within the shrine. The children of Villers Bretouneux have been rehearsing “ Australia Will Be There, ’ ’ which lid's been adopted as the town’s song. In response to an official investigation from the Mayor, the Agents-Gen-eral and representative of the various Australian .States and the Commonwealth were received by the Mayor of the town, which was “adopted” by the city of Melbourne.