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PILGRIMAGE TO BATTLEFIELDS. 9500 APPLICANTS FOR VISIT. British Legion officials are in France to complete arrangements for the 10,000 men and women who are taking part in what may be the jn°st impresive ceremony since the armistice—the pilgrimage’ to the battlefields. The Prince of Wales, it was defile itely stated, will be among them, while Lady Haig has promised t'o make the pilgrimage with her son. But it is the return of 7000 men to the battlefields they knew and the visit of nearly 3000 women relatives of men who were killed that will mark the pilgrimage as a greater occasion. The number of applications already received is 9500. The pilgrims will travel in special trains and boats, and the French and Belgian people are preparing to welcome 10,000 with the same fervour that they did the firsf 10,000 ’of Britain’s Army. The men and women will leave England on August 4, and a solemn, commemorative service will be held at the, Menin Gate on August 8.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2
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170BACK TO FLANDERS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2
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