Cemeteries -- Belgium; Cemeteries -- France; George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936; World War, 1914-1918 -- Cemeteries
"_And the last land he found it was fair and level ground
About a carven stone,
And a stark sword brooding on the bosom of the cross
Where high and low are one._"]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
GENERAL DE CASTELNAU'S REPLY]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
PROCESSION TO THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
PROCESSION TO THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE
"_All that they had they gave--they gave_"]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
THE QUEEN LAYING A WREATH ON THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
THE SALUTE AT THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
THE QUEEN AT THE GRAVES]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
THE QUEEN AT THE GRAVES]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
THE STONE OF REMEMBRANCE WITH THE QUEEN'S WREATH
"_Their name liveth for evermore_"]
[Illustration: TERLINCTHUN
NAPOLEON'S COLUMN IN THE BACKGROUND
"_And here ... the shadow of his monument falling almost across their
graves, the greatest of French soldiers--of all soldiers--stands guard
over them_"]
[Illustration: LEAVING ETAPLES]
[Illustration: "_In the course of my pilgrimage I have many times asked
myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth
through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses
to the desolation of war_"]
IV: "_And there lay gentlemen from out of all the seas._"
On the evening of May 12 the King's train left Longpré and went down to
the coast. The night was spent at Etaples, a fishing port at the mouth of
the River Canche, which has figured since many centuries back in the
history of the British Empire, and now is the site of what has come to be
known as our "Empire Cemetery" in France.
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