THE YPRES TIMES
STUART OSWALD, M.C..
27
PROPOSED STATUE OF MARSHAL FOCH
FOR LONDON.
Sir,
May we ask the hospitality of your columns
to remind your readers of a letter which
appeared in The Times of March 28th from Lord
Askwith expressing his belief that the British
race would desire to erect a statue of Marshal
Foch in London. A Committee has conse
quently been formed to organize the scheme.
Such a statue would serve a double purpose.
It would be a permanent memorial of the
gratitude of our nation to the great Marshal of
France and Field-Marshal of England who
commanded the Allied Armies during the final
stages of the war. And it would commemorate
the century and more of peace between our
countriesnever again to be broken, as we hope
and believe.
The Hon. Secretary is Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond,
87, Victoria Street, London, S.W.i, who will be
happy to give any further information that may
be desired.
It is proposed tp erect a replica of the
equestrian statue at Cassel by Georges Malissard,
which he modelled from life. A site has been
generously promised by the Duke of West
minster on the triangular plot in Grosvenor
Gardens, close to Victoria Station, where all
arriving from France by the usual route would
see the statue. When beautified by flower
beds, etc., the position would be most attractive.
The cost of the monument erected and completed
would be about £5,000.
Contributions should be sent to -
Marshal Foch Memorial Fund,"
Messrs. Glyn, Mills Co.,
67, Lombard Street, London, Ë.C.3.
We are, etc.,
(Signed) Derby.
(President of the United Associations of
Great Britain and France).
Hardinge of Penhursx.
Crewe.
Tyrrell.
7, Rue Porte-Paris, Amiens (Somme), FRANCE.
(ypres league representative)
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Telegrams "Stars, Amiens."
Gold Coast Regt., R.W.A.F.F.,
Kumasi,
Gold Coast,
August 2nd, 1929.
Sir,
With reference to the article entitled The
First Shot of The Great War," which appeared
in The Ypres Times for July, 1929, I enclose
herewith a copy of the 1928 Christmas card of
the Gold Coast Regiment. From this you will
see that, as far as the British Army is concerned,
it is claimed that the first shot was fired in
Togoland on August 6th, 1914, by R.S.M.
Alhaji Grunshi, D.C.M., M.M., Gold Coast
Regiment.
Yours faithfully,
W. M. Harrington,
Captain and Quartermaster,
Gold Coast Regiment, R.W.A.F.F.
R.S.M. Alhaji Grunshi, D.C.M., M.M.
The Gold Coast Regiment.
The first soldier in the British Army to fire a shot
in the Great War, August 6th, 1914. Capture
of Togoland.