PILGRIMAGE TO MONS.
OLD CONTEMPTIBLES' PROPOSAL. IBT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIRIQBT.) (.AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'.) LONDON, October 23. . The Old Contemptibles' Association is planning a pilgrimage to Mons on Armistice Day, when 300 representatives of every unit will be present. The battle veterans will draw up in single line to observe a two-minutes' silence. Then the buglers and trumpeters who were present on the first day of the battle will sound Reveille and Last Post. . On the following Sunday there will be a drumhead service on the spot where the first Old Contemptibles fell.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 11
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93PILGRIMAGE TO MONS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 11
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