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THE YPRES TIMES
Forest played by the pipers of the Seaforth Highlanders, a minute's silence, then the
Réveille and the British and French National Anthems. Adjoining the Memorial
is a cemetery containing the graves of 300 British and 300 French soldiers whose bodies
have been recently recovered from battlefields. The intention of the cemetery is to
symbolize the common sacrifice of British and French. To this cemetery men of the
British Legion bore the ashes of wooden crosses which were planted in the greensward
of Westminster Abbey last Armistice Day. The crosses, which had been stored in the
Abbey, were cremated and the ashes spread here.
Following the service, wreaths were placed on the Stone of Remembrance on
behalf of the Prince, and the President, then followed the official Army ones, and
societies such as ours.
The wreath of the League,
white flowers with cornflowers,
was laid by Captain H. D.
Peabody, D.C.M., and on the
card attached was the following
tribute
From the Ypres League.
To the memory of
the noble Army of
the Missing
recorded on this
Memorial, and to
their late beloved
President, Field-
Marshal Viscount
Plumer.
A procession of ex-servicemen,
led by the Legion standard-
bearer, marched around the
Stone of Remembrance, a
splendid tribute to their old
comrades.
At the same time a wreath was placed on the Menin Gate. In affectionate memory
of our beloved President, who has now joined his gallant comrades who fell in the
immortal defence of Ypres."
We leave our comrades sleeping, ours to do something to make our country a
better land, more worthy of that tremendous sacrifice. Let us always put England
first and foremost, as those others did, who counted not the sacrifice, but gave them
selves.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."
H. D. P.
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
UNVEILING THE MEMORIAL.
