THE BRITISH LEGION.
WAR HEROES REMEMBERED. LONDON, June 8. The Duke of York, in addressing a conference of 800 delegates, representing 2488 branches of the British Legion, said history had revealed the unedifying truth that however a nation might remember its great victories, its memory of those who made the victory possible was generally short. This would have been true of the Great War but for the legion, which had made itself a definite place in the life of the nation to-day.
The Duke of York and Earl Haig headed a procession of 3000 legionaries to the cenotaph, on which they jointly placed a large poppy wreath.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1038, 10 June 1924, Page 5
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