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convey an idea of its size, but as you enter the portals, the main hall, as the interior of
the arch is called, stretches ahead for more than 40 yards.
On both sides, the walls, except where they are broken by entrances to staircases,
are covered with panels bearing the names of unidentified dead, 150 names to the column
and 44 columns on either side. Other smaller panels are on the faces of the pillars and
the staircases. The total number of names now engraved exceeds 58,000. They are
grouped by regiments, the names of regiments in gold, and those of officers and men in
black against the greyish-white stone. They make a roll of practically all the armies
cf the Empire, and places of honour are given to some from farthest away.
PhotoCentral Press.
AERIAL VIEW OF THE MEMORIAL.
On either side of the Gate, behind the water, rise the familiar ancient ramparts,
repaired in the immediate vicinity of the monument with newer brick, but elsewhere
reaching as far as the eye can see, they are their old grey, battered selves, their outer
face still dented and shell-torn. On top of the ramparts in places young trees have grown
to 12 ft. or 15 ft. since the war. The water of the moat below is almost stagnant, half-
covered with green weed, with islands and rushes here and there, just as of old and
the banks, now grass-grown, are still hummocky and rough as ever. Amidst these
evidences of the war the Gate is doubly splendid.
(The above article, reproduced in condensed form by kind permission of The Times,
was written by its brilliant war correspondent, Sir Harry Perry Robinson, K.B.E.)
