BRITAIN'S DEAD IN EAST
TOUCHING PILGRIMAGE TO WAB
GRAVES.
(United Pre»» Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 26th' August, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, 25th August._ There was a touching scene at Victoria Station when' 260 mothers, fathers, and children set out. under the auspices of St. Barnabas, on a pilgrimage to the Gallipoli, Constantinople, and Salonika war graves. They came frpm all parts of Britain without distinction of rich and poor, with only, one class on the chartered vessel. The party will bo the first to land at Suvla Bay since the end of .hostilities. The party is taking its own trumpeter, who will sound the "Last Post" before the mm» utes of silence, which -will be held alongside tho Cape Helios Memorial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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