"MISSING, BELIEVED KILLED."
[To ins Kenos or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sm.—In answer to Mr. E. H. Gillespie, I cannot speak officially for the War Graves Commission, but I am certain that they intend to keep in mind the " missing, believed killed." A quotation from The King's Pilgrimage on this point :—
" It is proposed by the Imperial War Graves Commission that at the Menin. Gate there should be a memorial to those of the Empire's Armies who fell in this area but have no known graves. It will crown these ramparts with a great double arch, enclosing a vaulted hall, in which will be recorded the names of all those lost in the neighbouring battlefields whose bodies have not been recovered and identified. The design pro- vides that the arch facing Menin„ where once the foe was drawn up, will be surmounted by the great figure of a lion alert in defence. . . . Sir Reginald Blomfield, architect of the memorial at the Menin Gate, submitted to the King the designs and plans of the monument. His Majesty emphasized the need that the names inscribed should be clear to all to read."
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