FRENCH WAR PILGRIMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 April 1929, Page 10

FRENCH WAR PILGRIMS

VISIT ,TO;J_X)NDON , : (United PfMM Association—Br Blootrle Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association) LONDON,'3lstyMarch. Nine hundred members of La Flame, the French equivalent of the Returned Soldiers' League, headed by General Gouraud, Governor of Paris, who lost an arm in the war, spent to-day in London as a visit of homage in response to yesterday's pilgrimage of eleven thousand members of the British Legion to Ypres and Northern France. The Frenchmen, all in mufti and wearing berets inscribed "La Flame," assembled in Westminster. Hall, where they received a most cordial welcome. Speeches were made in French by Earl Jellicoe, head of the British Legion, and Majbr-GeneraT. Clive. Headed by British and Erer>ohnmilitary hands., the party went v to i Westminster Abbey, where General Gouraud laid palm leaves worked in bronze on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Re-forming, the procession moved to the Cenotaph, where General Gouraud deposited a bronze wreath, the French band playing.... Vallin's Funeral March, "Sommeil" Eternel." General Gouraud, joined by Countesses Haig and Jellicoe and naval and military officers, took the salute of the pilgrims in their march past the Horse Guards.