WAR GRAVE PILGRIMS.
MOVING SCENES AT QUAY. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copy-'*' o ''* t Australian and N.Z. Cable A. c eociati >□. (Received October 1. 1.15 p.m.) PARIS, September 30. A thousand pilgrims to British graves in France, while returning to England, held a massed service at the quayside at Boulogne. The youngest of them was eleven years, and many were over seventy. Some had gathered strange impressions of what the last restingplace of their relatives was like, from such names as Flat-iron Cop, Sunken Hoad and Crucifix Corner. 'When they saw beautifully laid out cemeteries they realised how well their beloved were cared for. Many broke down and wept as they le"t Boulogne. Mothers, assembled on deck, sang “Abide with Ale.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 8
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