BRITISH LEGION.
TRIBUTE BY DUKE OF YORK,
tfy 0»bl* Pr»>a Asio'-l.tLr. Oop^rKnl. Received 8.30 p.m., June 9. LONDON, June 8.
The Duke of York, addressing a Conference of 800 delegates, representing 2488 branches of the British Legion, said that history had revealed the undeniable truth .that however a nation might remember great victories, its memory Of those who made victory possible was generally short. This would have been true of the Great War, but for, the Legion, which every three years made itself a definite place in the life of the nation. To-day the Duke of York and Earl
Haig headed a procession of three thousand legionaries to the Cenotaph, on which they jointly placed a large poppy wreath.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 2
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119BRITISH LEGION. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 2
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