HISTORIC GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 190, 14 May 1928, Page 6

HISTORIC GALLIPOLI

ANOTHER PILGRIMAGE

Dominion Special Service.

London, April 5.

A second and final pilgrimage to Gallipoli is now being arranged bj’ the St. Barnalms Pilgrimage, and will take place at the end of August, a time of jear when the climatic conditions on the peninsula are at their best. Macedonia is to be included in the itinerary and, while the boat stays at Salonika, the pilgrimage is going up to Doiran, on the Serbian frontier. It will visit there the largest military cemetery in Macedonia and see the Memorial to the Missing, which has beeli placed on the summit of one of the hills overlooking the beautiful Lake Doiran. on the far side of which is the frontier. Before returning to the boat the pilgrims will go to the valle.v of the Struma, the first Bulgar lines of 1917. Visits will be paid to Skjros and to Lemnos, and then the boat will turn to Gallipoli. It is hoped that the memorial service will be held either at Anzac or at Suvla. Manj' of the pilgrims who have this month signified their intention of joining the pilgrimage were present in September, 1926, at the wonderful memorial service held at the Memorial to the Missing at Cape Helles, the foot of the Gallipoli peninsula. Helles will again be visited, and the three landings at Gallipoli, all to practically uninhabited areas, will be made l\v means of small boats. Visits to specified graves are guaranteed, provided that the location is officially verified beforehand. Lectures will be given on board by authorities on the countries through which the pilgrimage passes, and manj' places of outstanding interest will be visited.

The pilgrimage affords an opportunity of reaching districts which are almost impossible of access to the ordinarj’ traveller, and gives to the relatives of those who died the privilege of seeing tiie places where they rest.