FAMOUS REGIMENT
KING EDWARD'S iICRSE PILGRIMAGE OF VETERANS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 8. A party of veterans of King Edward’s Horse, through whose ranks 2,000 Dominion soldiers passed in war time, recently made a pilgrimage to the battlefields of France, led by Colonel George . Gray. Russell, and attended a service at the regimental Memorial Stone at- Yieille Chappelle, where the regiment made a Jieroie stand in the Battle of Ly_s in 1918. Colonel Lionel James informed the Australian Associated Press that it was hoped shortly to reconstitute the regiment. as it carried the name of the present King.
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Evening Star, Issue 22413, 10 August 1936, Page 10
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99FAMOUS REGIMENT Evening Star, Issue 22413, 10 August 1936, Page 10
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