Remarkable Ceremony at Parkhurst Perhaps the most remarkable of If Professor Nimfulz's claims are! all war memorials is that which General Secly unveiled at Park-hurst Prison, Isle of Wight. Taking the form of a brass tablet on the chancel wall of the prison chapel, it has been subscribed for by the convicts themselves in memory of their fellow-prisoners who were liberated during the war to fight for their country.
The tablet bears the following inscription To the glory of God and in_ memory of those who went out from imprisonment in this place and gave their lives for their country on the Field of Honour in the Great War, 1914—1918, "These are they which came out of great tribulation.""—Erected by their fellow-prisoners.
Coxvicr Wito Won rue V.C.
The unveiling service was performed in the presence of about 700 convicts. During General Seely's speech, in which he referred to one gallant ex-convict who won the V.C. and afterwards died of wounds, tears filled the eyes of many of the men in that strange audience, and their emotion was again apparent when buglers of the Raya] Ulster Rifles sounded the "Last Post."
A convict accompanied on the organ the hearty singing of the National Anthem which concluded the ceremony, and another convict, immediately after the unveiling, laid a laurel wreath below the tablet.
Kees Scpscriners.
The memorial was raised at the spontaneous wish and by the sole effort of the convicts themselves, and so keen were some to send home for substantial sums towards it that the Governor had to limit the subscriptions. Among the subscribe ers was a German who had fought against us in the war.
An official return just issued shows that over 280 ex-convicts were killed in the war. The man who won the V. was a Lancashire soldier serving in the King's Royal Rifles. Two won the D.C.M., and three the Military Medal.
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