THE BRITISH LEGION
LONDON, June 9. The Duke of York, addressing a conference of 800 delegates representing 2488 branches of the British Legion, said history had revealed an unedifying truth, that however a nation might remember great victories its memory of those who made the victory possible was generally short. This would have been true of the Great War but for the Legions, which, every three years, made itself a definite place in the life national.
To-day the Duke of York and Earl Haig headed a procession of 3000 legionaries to the Cenotaph, on which they jointly placed a large poppy wreath.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19034, 11 June 1924, Page 11
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102THE BRITISH LEGION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19034, 11 June 1924, Page 11
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