CROSS OF REMEMBRANCE
DEAD HEROES OF SOMME DEDICATION ON SUNDAY British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. A moving little ceremony will take place near Les Boeufs, on the Somme, next Sunday. A simple granite cross has been erected at the head of a sunken road leading into the town to replace the rotting wooden cross which was constructed by the British Guards Division in memory of their fallen comrades after the two great battles on the Somme in 1916. One hundred and thirty officers and men of the present Guards Division — Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish, and Welsh —will be drawn up around the cross to assist in its dedication. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Pat McCormick, rector of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London. He was senior chaplain to the division in 1916. Major-General Sir Geoffrey Fielding, who Commanded the division in the Somme battles, will be present.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 9
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147CROSS OF REMEMBRANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 9
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