GREAT BATTLEFIELD MARCH OF 10,000.
LONDON, February 4. Once again the battlefields of France are to echo the tramp of a British Expeditionary Force cracking the old jokes and singing the old war songs of< 1914-18. Only this time it is to be a great peace expedition of 10,000 ex-Service men and their womenfolk, who in August are to revisit the Western Front to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the last “big push” of the Great War. The old comrades will revisit the Beaumcnt-Hamel cfistrict, where, just above “ Y ” ravine, the Newfoundland Government has purchased a tract of ground which is preserved. At Vimy Ridge, where the Canadian Government has reconstructed the battle-front, they will again explore the underground tunnels in which the men assembled for the Battle of Arras in 1917.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18419, 22 March 1928, Page 8
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