EDITOR'S NOTES.
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The Ypres Times.
THE MENIN QATE MEMORIAL.
On the Menin Gate Memorial will be inscribed
in stone the names of 55,000 missing Englishmen,
Scots, Welsh, Irish, Canadians, Australians, South
Africans, Indians and Colonials who fell in the
Ypres Salient, but have no known graves. The
memorial designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield
occupies a position at the town end of the Cause
way, across the moat leading to the Menin Road,
over which passed, never to return, those who
will be commemorated there. It is in the form
of an arch or gateway the main hall is about
70 feet span by 50 feet in height, and 130 feet in
length from end to end. Looking at the arch from
outside the old ramparts of which it forms a part,
the main structure rises in three great steps, and
is surmounted in the centre by the figure of a lion
in repose, sculptured by W. Reid Dick, A.R.A.
Beneath the lion above the soffit of the arch is
this inscription
To the Armies of the British Empire
who stood here from 1914-1918, and to those
of their dead who have no known grave."
In the same position at the other end of the
arch is the inscription
By kind permission of the Imperial War Graves Commission
Here are recorded names of officers and
men who fell in the Ypres Salient, but to
whom the fortune of war denied the known
and honoured burial given to their comrades
in death."
f'ON THE WESTERN FRONT."
1/3rd BATT. MONMOUTHSHIRE REGT.
With a foreword contributed by the Rt. Hon.
Major-General Lord Treowen, C.B., C.M.G., and
an introductory chapter by Colonel W. D. Steel,
V.D., this little book traces the history of the
Battalion from its formation about the year 1860
down to the distinguished part it played in the
Great War.
The fighting of the Battalion in the Second
Battle of Ypres and on the Somme is vividly
described, and a very interesting chapter is
devoted to the active part taken by it in the
mining operations at Hill 60.
The book is well illustrated and contains several
large scale coloured maps, showing the disposition
of the troops.
The editors are to be congratulated on producing
a work of distinct merit. The style in which it is
written is simple and straightforward, and the
greatest care has been taken to attain accuracy.
Altogether a book of outstanding interest.
devoted to short studies in literature, art, history,
photography, poetry, travel, etc., but also pro
vides a medium whereby those who write and
drawr are enabled not only to publish their work,
but to secure adequate remuneration. To these
pen and pencil men and women Home and Abroad
offers exceptional facilities for introducing their
names to a world-wide market. The review will
be sent free of any charge for three months to
readers of The Ypres Times. Address, Home and
Abroad, c/oE. M. Channing-Renton, Hotel Pension
Eden Corniche, 156, Promenade de la Corniche,
Marseilles, France.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr. David Young, of 31, Pont Street, London,
W. 1would like to get in touch with anyone living
in London who has served with No. 32 or No. 294,
Siege Battery, R.G.A.
HOME AND ABROAD."
A finely printed and illustrated monthly review,
edited by E. M. Channing-Renton, and circulated
throughout the English-speaking world. It is
18775 Private W. R. Muir, R.A.M.C., attached
A Battery, 28th Brigade Army Field Artillery,
killed November 7th, 1917, and buried in Artillery
Wood Cemetery, near Ypres. Miss C. M. Muir
is anxious to correspond with any soldier who was
serving in her brother's unit during 1917.
