To Battlefields
GREATEST PILGRIMAGE Prince to Lead the Host 'British Official Wireless Reed. 11.10 a.m. RUGBY, Sunday. ALTHOUGH 11,000 people win be taken by the British Legion to the battlefields of Prance and Flanders on the pilgrimage in August, this number only represents a fraction of those who would go if accommodation were available.
The pilgrimage officially opens with ceremonies of homage to God on August 4, the fourteenth anniversary of the British entry into the war. The Prince of Wales will make his headquarters at Lille, and among others staying there will be Marshal Foch, Marshal Petain, General Gouraud, General Wygand, Admiral Jellicoe (president of the British Legion), Lady Haig and her son. On August 6 there will be a memorial service and parade at Ypres. Never before has such a concentration of pilgrims taken place. The next scene will be the Menin Gate Memorial, to the memory of the 56,000 British, Dominion and colonial troops who gave their lives in the defence of the salient, and who have no identifiable graves.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 9
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173To Battlefields Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 9
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