GALLIPOLI PILGRIMS
BRITISH PARTY VISITS WAR GRAVES London, September 2. The Constantinople correspondent of the “Morning Post” states that those taking part in the pilgrimage to Gallipoli have arrived, after a voyage of inspection through the Dardanelles. A meeting of the pilgrims aboard the steamer resolved to advocate an alteration from “Anzac Day” to “Gallipoli Day,” in order that the name shall give no monopoly of fame. [Under the auspices of St. Barnabas, 200 .mothers, fathers,’’■and children set out from Victoria Station, London, on August 24, in a pilgrimage to the Gallipoli, Constantinople, and . Salonika war graves. They came from all parts of Britain without distinction of rich and poor, with only one class on the chartered vessel.]
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 291, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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