MEMORIAL TO MISSING.
UNVEILED AT ARRAS. THE GALLANT AIR FORCE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 1, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, July 31. Arras was crowded with British, including many widows and children, for the unveiling of a memorial to the dead and missing whose graves are unknown. Sir Hugh Trenchard, Alarshal of the Air Force, in unveiling the memorial, recalled that nearly 35,000 British were missing and killed, chiefly in the successful offensive of 1917 and the hard-l'ought defensive of 1918. The Air Force memorial, situated about the centre of the British front, commemorated tiie men who struggled with their gallant opponents l'or the mastery of tiie air, and died at all parts of the Western front or far beyond over Germany, “and went home through the heights.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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