Branch Notes.
ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
THE YPRES TIMES
9i
PURLEY BRANCH.
The Spring Golf Meeting held on May 26th,
at Purley Downs Golf Club, was very successful.
Forty-four members competed, the weather was
excellent and the result was a tie between Dr. L.
Meakin and Mr. N. R. Crute with a return of one
up on bogey.
As the Doctor was unable to stay, the tie could
not be decided then and there, and will be played
off shortly.
A supper followed, which was thoroughly en
joyed, and the general conclusion was that the
competition for the Third Wipers Cup was the
most successful golf effort of this Branch so far.
THE BOMBARDIER'S FOURSOMES.
Following the unqualified success of the Golf
Competition for the Third Wipers Cup, the
Chairman of the Purley Branch, Bombardier
E. A. R. Burden, has very sportingly proposed
a Foursome Knock-out Golf Competition to be
played by members of the Branch during the
summer. The winners will hold cups for a year
and receive a prize.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of the
YPRES LEAGUE (incorporated)
will be held at
9, BAKER STREET, PORTMAN
SQUARE, LONDON, W.i,
on
MONDAY, JULY 18th, 1932,
at 6 p.m.
NEW YORK BRANCH.
The outstanding event in New York during
the past quarter, in which many of our members
actively participated, was undoubtedly the
Army Day Parade on April 2nd, a celebra
tion now held annually in America to mark the
entry of the United States into the world war.
The parade, numbering some 18,000, included
units of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps
and National Guard, Veterans' organizations of
America and its Allies in the world war, a police
force regiment of infantry, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and other patriotic societies, and was
reviewed by General John J. Pershing, that
much-admired and respected Commander of the
American Expeditionary Forces during the
Great War.
On the General's arrival at the stand he re
viewed the old Artillery unit, being escorted past
it by Colonel George W. Burleigh (Ypres League
Executive Member of the New York Branch).
Martial airs were played by as many as twenty-
two bands and the parade took an hour and a half
to pass the reviewing stand. Colonel Edward
Olmsted, as Marshal, led the Veterans' organiza
tion past the saluting base, on whose staff
appeared the Ypres League representative in
America, Captain R. Henderson Bland. Mem
bers of the League in the reviewing officer's
box with General Pershing included General
J. F. O'Ryan, General Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Marshal of the Parade), General J. Leslie
Kincaid, Colonel Edward Olmsted, Colonel
George W. Burleigh, Colonel Franklin Q. Brown
and the Hon. A. A. Smith.
At the saluting base Captain Bland was pre
sented to General Pershing and we are proud to
know that he was so cordially received. The
General's keen interest in the principles of the
Ypres League greatly strengthens the prestige
of the League in America as well as giving
enormous encouragement to Captain Bland and
his executive colleagues.
Prior to the parade Brigadier-General
Cornelius Vanderbilt (Ypres League Executive
Member of the New York Branch) gave a
luncheon in honour of General Pershing at the
Army Navy Club, which was attended by a
very distinguished gathering.
We take this opportunity to express our deep
regret in the recent death of one of our Life
Members, Brigadier-General William Barclay
Parsons, who personally attended the above
parade. General Parsons was a great person
ality, widely known on both sides of the Atlantic,
being specially remembered as the man who
planned and engineered the first of New York
City's subways and as the only foreigner ever
summoned by the British Government to advise
on the problem of London street traffic. The
nth Engineers, which he helped to raise and
eventually command, were the first body of
American troops, except for medical men, to be