FIRST TO FALL
BRITAIN REMEMBERS ENTRY INTO GREAT WAR REQUIEM IN LONDON LONDON, Tuesday. A requiem for the thousands of heroic dead was sounded by voice and trumpet today, when,-on the 16th anniversary of Britain’s entry into tho Great War, four monuments commemorating the soldiers whose resting-places remain unknown were unveiled at Loos, Pozieres, Visenartois and Louverval. Sir Nevil Macready, quoting Laurence Btnyon’s noble poem: “We Shall Remember Them,” pointed out that most of those named on the Loos memorial belonged to the first 100,000 men who came from England at the earliest call. General H. Smith-Dorrien unveiled the Pozieres memorial with its 14,690 names. An impressive ritual of prayers, the sounding of the “Last Post” and minutes of silence, followed by the singing of the British and French National Anthems, conferred fitting uniformity upon each ceremony.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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137FIRST TO FALL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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