146 THE YPRES TIMES so long as life shall last, with us and those, who, for Conscience' Sake served their God and King. "We stand here in no racial enmity of anyonethey knew no racial enmity, those men; they only knew their duty and did it. They stand in simple beauty with us once more as we would faithfully keep the tryst with them. "We go forward to-day to do our duty just as faithfully as they did theirs. God bless them where they may be." Photo[The Daily Mirror SERGT. O. BROOKS, V.C., AND LIEUT. W. A. WHITE, V.C., WITH THE LEAGUE WREATH. Following the address, the Pipers of the Scots Guards played the Lament," and, when this was ended, on the silence came the sounds of the Last Post." A brief interval, and then the hymn, Oh God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come," was sung, followed by the National Anthem, and then the bugles burst out with that great paeon of praise, the Réveille." The band of the 1st Surrey Rifles did yeoman service in leading the singing, etc., and we are indeed grateful both to them and to the Pipers of the Scots Guards for helping to make our Service of Remembrance such a great success. At the conclusion of the service the march to the nation's shrine in "Whitehall

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