WAR GRAVES
AN EMPIRE PILGRIMAGE.
(Australitin and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, April 28.
Seven hundred members of St. Barnabas Pilgrimage Fund, drawn from all part's of the Empire, arrived at Boulogne, in order to visit the battle fields and the tombs of relatives killed in the war.
The party, accompanied by six priests, included men. women, and children of all ages. They motored to Wimereux, two miles north of Boulogne, where a moving spectacle was presented, when the pilgrims knelt beside the graves and prayed in the pouring rain and driving wind. An officer of the linpefial' Graves Commission is acting as guide.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1924, Page 2
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