MEMORIAL TO IRISH SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 33

MEMORIAL TO IRISH SOLDIERS.

Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous Jesuit pulpit orator of England, has issued the following stirring append for a memorial to honor the Irish soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in the great cause of the world war: “There is a feeling abroad, shared by all who are in any way associated with the Irish regiments which fought in the great war, that some monument should be raised to be a lasting memorial of their bravery, valor, and heroism. It is felt that the memorial should, as far as possible, strike a personal note and should include a full roll call, embracing every man—of the Irish regiment, in which he served. What is demanded is a distinctly Irish monument, which shall exclude no soldier who fought and fell in one or other of,, the 16 Irish regiments which covered themselves with glory in the crusade for right over might. It is felt that as these Irish regiments were made up not only of men from Ireland, but also of Irishmen from Australia and* Canada, from New r Zealand and South Africa, and of^ others from tho furthest ends of our vast Empire, that their glorious names and splendid deeds must not be forgotten by those for whose hearths and homes they sacrificed their own lives.”