BRITISH LEGION.
BATTLEFIELDS PILGRIMAGE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR AUGUST. British Wireless. RUGBY, June 17. Although 11,000 people will be taken by the British Legion to the battlefields of France and Flanders on a pilgrimage in August that number only represents a fraction of those who would go if accommodation were available. The pilgrimage will be officially opened with ceremonies of homage to God on August 4, the 14th anniversary of Britain's entry into the Great War. The Prince of Wales will make his headquarters at Lille. Among others who will stay there will be Marshals Foch and Pefain, Generals Gouraud and Wvgand, Earl Jellicoe. president of (ho Legion, Lady Haig and her son. On August 6 there will be a memorial service and a parade at Ypres. Never before has such a concentration of pilgrims taken place. The next scene will be at the Menin Gate memorial to the memory of 56,000 British, Dominion and Colonial troops who gave their lives in defence of that salient, and who have no identifiable graves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 9
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