We are but just emerging from the shadow of that peril from which the British and Imperial Armies--bone of our bone and flesh or our flesh--have saved us.

Let us now, if ever, praise the "famous men" of the war, and gather into our hearts the daily efforts, the countless sacrifices of countless thousands, in virtue of which we now live our quiet lives.
Nor have I dwelt much upon the terrible background of the whole scene, the physical horror, the anguish and suffering of war.

Our noblest dead, to judge from the most impassioned and inspired utterances of the men who have suffered for us, would bid us indeed remember these things,--remember them with all the intensity of which we are capable--but with few words.

They never counted the cost, though they knew it well; and what they set out to do, they have done.
Let us then, at this particular moment, dwell, above all, on _the thing achieved_.

To that end, a few colossal figures must still be added to those already given.