ALL TIME COMMEMORATION
“LAST POST” SOUNDED DAILY. VISITORS TO BRITISH GRAVES. (British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 25. Beginning to-day, the anniversary of the commencement of the Battle of Loos, the “Last Post” will be sounded by cue of the Imperial War Graves Commission’s ex'-service staff every evening at the Loos Memorial to the Missing. The “Last Post” is sounded nightly at the Menin Gate, Ypres, which bears the names of those who died in defence of the salient, and similar arrangements will be made at the Thiepval Memorial when it is completed. During the present summer, up to the end of August, 100,000 visitors have signed the visitors’ books kept in the British war cemeteries of France and Belgium.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 7
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122ALL TIME COMMEMORATION Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 7
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