BATTLEFIELDS PILGRIMAGE
OVERSEAS VETERANS. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, August 8. A party of veterans of King Edward’s Horse, through whose ranks 2000 Dominion soldiers passed in war time, recently made a piligrimage to Hie battlefields of France, led by Col. George Gray Russell, who is a son of the late Mr Philip Russell, of Tiniaru, and who was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School. Colonel Russell is a former commander of King Edward’s Horse. They attended a service at. the regimental memorial stone at Vieille Chappelle, where the regiment. made a heroic stand in the Battle o’ Lys in 1918. Colonel Lionel James, who commanded King Edward’s Horse with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Italy between 1915 and 1918, informed the Australian Associated Press that he hoped shortly to reconstitute the regiment as it carried the name of the present king.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1936, Page 8
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