VISIT TO FRENCH BATTLEFIELDS
* —_ VETERANS OF KING EDWARD’S HORSE (Received August 9, 9.17 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. A party of veterans of King Edward’s Horse, through whose ranks 2000 Dominion soldiers ' passed in war time, recently made a pilgrimage to the battlefields of France, led by Colonel George Gray Russell, who is § a son of the late Mr Philip Russell, of Timaru, and who was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School. Colonel Russell is a former commander of King Edward’s Horse. They attended a service at the regimental memorial stone at Vieille Chappelle, where the regiment made a heroic stand in the Battle of Lys in 1918. Colonel Lionel James, who commanded King Edward’s Horse with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Italy between 1915 and 1918, informed the Australian Associated Press that he hoped short!v to reconstitute the regiment as it carried the name of the present King.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21857, 10 August 1936, Page 11
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