'ue
120
THE YPRES TIMES
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
The Ypres Times gives us an opportunity to
welcome all our new members who have joined
during the past quarter, and thank them in
advance for the support they are kind enough
to give us in the future.
We feel sure that you will be only too anxious
to comply with the wish of our President, Field-
Marshal Viscount Plumer, whose message
appears on the first page of The Ypres Times.
Do not allow any chance to pass without
endeavouring to promote our aims and objects.
The Ypres League stands in memory of all
those who gave their lives in the immortal
defence of the Ypres Salient, and we want all
survivors of that famous battlefield, or those
who lost relatives there, to join as members
and so keep the memory of the great deeds and
sacrifices alive.
It is for the younger generation to learn what
their fathers and brothers had to endure during
the Great War, and the beautiful scroll certificate
designed by Sir Bernard Partridge, given as a
record of service, can be handed down in proud
memory to the juniors. Our pilgrimages to
the Ypres Salient have been well patronized this
year, and in the next edition of the journal you
will find the 1931 programme. We hope that
we may have the pleasure to see you on one of
our future trips to the Salient, and that you will
bring some of your friends. These pilgrimages
always result in very happy reunions and help
so much to keep up the old war-time comrade
ship. May we remind you again of the value of
recruiting new membersthe life of the League
depends on its membership, and we shall be
exceedingly pleased to welcome any one whom
you are kind enough to introduce. Membership
forms can always be obtained on application to
the Secretary.
TO BRANCH SECRETARIES AND
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
We are very pleased to welcome Mr. H. Dart,
who has kindly taken over the duties of
Corresponding Member for the Congleton Area
in place of Mr. W. H. Duncan Arthur, now
residing at Tiverton.
Mr. Duncan Arthur, who has most generously
offered to act in the same capacity for Tiverton,
has for years been one of our most active
workers, and we can never be sufficiently
grateful to him for the great things he has done
for the League, especially in recruiting, and we
wish him every success in his new appointment
at Tiverton.
Our grateful thanks are also due to all those of
other districts who have given their valuable
time to the welfare of the League during the
year. Special thanks are extended to Capt. J.
Wilkinson for making our pilgrimages known in
the Sheffield district through the medium of the
local Press.
May we suggest that our other Branch Secre
taries and Corresponding Members approach
their local Press in order to secure similar
publicity to our pilgrimages.
Capt. R. Henderson-Bland is very much on
the active list, and his present intention is to
organize a dinner in New York in the late
autumn to members and friends of the League.
We trust that he will receive the closest co
operation from all his influential military
acquaintances, with a view to making this
proposed reunion possible. We wish to thank
Capt. Bland for his devoted interest, and feel
sure that his efforts will meet with the success
they deserve.
The year 1930 has been a successful one, and
we tabulate our pilgrimages and tours to France
and Belgium, as follows
April 17-22
April
May
June
July
Aug.
19-22
9-21
7-10
5-7
2-5
Aug. 9-16
2nd London Regi
mental Assn.
Easter Pilgrimage
85th Club
Whitsuntide Pil
grimage
Free Pilgrimage
Bank Holiday
Pilgrimage, in
cluding Ather-
stone Branch
Party
Whaley Branch,
British Legion
Arras.
Ypres.
Ypres.
Ypres.
Ypres.
Ypres.
France and
Belgium.
Independent travel has also been up to
previous standard, and many letters have been
received from individuals and secretaries of
parties expressing entire satisfaction with the
arrangements made by the League for their
comfort, and immense help given by our repre
sentatives at Ypres, Arras and Amiens. (See
page 115.) Accounts of the August Bank
Holiday trip, British Legion Tour, and Free
Pilgrimage will be found on pages 119, 112, 104
respectively.
We thank our London County Committee for
the new members they have recruited and
congratulate them on their activities during the
year, which have been greatly appreciated, and
we wish their work renewed success in 1931.
We cannot conclude this letter without re
ferring again to the message from Field-Marshal
The Viscount Plumer to members of the League
on page 97, appealing for the increase of member
ship, and we feel confident that his request will
meet with a very generous response.
