Save for the provision of altar rails and other minor details of construction the Holy Trinity Cathedral War Memorial Chapel has just been completed. The unveiling ceremony, however, will not take place until the autumn owing to the large number of residents now on holiday.
The chapel, which is on_ the south side of the chancel, is in Gothic style, the walls being covered in magnificent oak panelling, on which the names of over 200 fallen are inscribed. Above the names on three sides of the chapel are the words, "To the glory of God and in honour of the memory of those connected with this Cathedral and Shanghai who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918 this Chapel is dedicated." A panel on the south side of the altar is dedicated to the memory of the Rev. W. H. Price, of Holy Trinity Cathedral, who was chaplain in H.M.§. Triumph and died at the Dardanelles in 1917, and another to the late Sir Everard Fraser, k.c.s.a., Consul-General at Shanghai for 11 years, "including the period of the Great War." Two memorial windows, presented by Sir Edward Pearce, are in memory of his son who died in Flanders fields.
The reredos, executed at Home by Mr. Harry Home to the design of Messrs. Stewardson: and Spence, is also of oak. It is deeply sym-polic of the men who suffered hardship and finally endured death that others might live. With the text, "the Angel of His presence saved them" below, Our Saviour is represented as ministering to little children, while on His left and right are seen British soldiers in battle order.
Dean Walker was the moving spirit in the building of the war memorial. "While he left Shanghai toq soon.to see the chapel completed, he did much in London towards making the final arrange: ments in the work of construction. The proposal #0 build the chapel was originally suggested by the congregation shortly after the Armistice, together with the provision of a new organ. Both schemes were taken in hand by committees and a sum of Tls. 5,386 has been subscribed towards the chapel. Owing to delays of manufacturers it will be found impossible to instal the new organ, which has not yet arrived from Home, before the chapel is opened.
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