CROSS OF SCARIFICE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 20 June 1927, Page 5

CROSS OF SCARIFICE

MEMORIAL UNVEfLEC, TO BRITISH DEAD. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received 9.20 a.in.) LONDON, June 19. A message from Ypres states that General Dyett unveiled the Cross ol Sacrifice Memorial at Tynecot. 'The memorial was erected in memory of the thirty-live thousand Empire! dead who wore killed in ■ later actions in the Ypres .Salient, many having no known graves. The nucleus of the cemetery is a, small number of battle graves round, the highest of several concrete German blockhouses, the centre of the heaviest fighting and fiver which the war cross was erected. The wall surrounding the graves contains a stone inscribed “Their names liveth for evermore.” There are also panels containing the names of the killed.

A small serai circular apse was consecrated to the memory of the New Zealand dead- Those present included members of the Service League, the Burgomasters of Paschcndalo and Zonnehclce and many inhabitants. The Rev. F. Molynenx blessed the Cross and buglers sounded the ]as( ; , post and the revollo.