THE YPRES TIMES
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of the Salient lived on and has been embodied in a new Ypres and in a new and
smilingly fruitful countryside. With the re-building of the Cloth Hall, the last scar of
the war will disappear. So, the spirit of Ypres and its defenders must live on. That
spirit must be re-embodied and we, its trustees, must see that the spirit of our dead is
reclothed, is re-enthroned, in living men and women, so that dreams of a new world for
which our dead were quite content to die, shall not miscarry, and since they died before
their task was finished we must realise the dreams of the new world undiminished by one
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE COMMEMORATION IN PRESENCE OF H.R.H. PRINCESS BEATRICE
SEATED IN THE ROYAL CAR.
particular of the splendour which they planned on earth. And that is not done by
sword, tongue or pen.
The service continued with The Lament played by the Pipers of the 2nd
Battalion Scots Guards, followed by the Last Post," then the Hymn, O God, our
help in ages past," the National Anthem and Reveille.
The whole parade now formed up for the march to the Cenotaph, headed by the
band, and Princess Beatrice, after taking the salute at the Horse Guards' Arch, layed
the beautiful Ypres League wreath composed of lilies, chrysanthemums and cornflowers
on the National Shrine. The bearers of the wreath were Captain W. A. White, V.C.,
late Machine Gun Corps, and Sergeant O. Brooks, V.C., late Coldstream Guards.
A few moments silence at the Cenotaph terminated the official ceremony, and at
4.30 p.m. we followed the custom of past years in placing a similar, but smaller, wreath
