WAR’S REAR REMEMBERER

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1930, Page 9

WAR’S REAR REMEMBERER

SCENES ON FRENCH FIELDS FOUR MEMORIALS UNVEILED SAME IMPRESSIVE >■ RITUAL By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 9.30 p.m. London, Aug. 4. Requiem for thousands of heroic dead was sounded by the voice of the trumpet to-day when on the sixteenth anniversary of Britain’s entry into the Gieat War four monuments commemorating soldiers whose resting places remain unknown were unveiled at Loos, Pozieres, Visenartois and Louverval. Sir Nevil Macready, quoting Bunyon’s noble poem, “We Shall Remember Them,” pointed out that, most of those named on the Loos memorial belonged to the first 100,009 men who came from England at the earliest call. General IL Smith-Dorrien unveiled the Pozieres memorial with its 4690 names. An impressive ritual of prayers, the Last Post and minutes of silence, followed by the British and French National Anthems, conferred fitting uniformity upon each ceremony.