182
THE YPRES TIMES
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
It gives us much pleasure to heartily welcome
the new members who have enrolled since
January, and we thank those who have expressed
in writing their gratefulness for the work the
League is doing to keep the great memory of
Ypres alive.
The following is an interesting record of our
four hundred and twenty-four 1932 new members
and places from which they were recruited
London.
S.W33
W.
N.
N.W.
S.E.
E.
E.G.
w.c.
Scotland
We hope that the return for 1933 will compare
no less favourably, and to this end we earnestly
ask the co-operation of all our new members
and wish them every success in their good
endeavours to swell the membership of the
Ypres League. Headquarters will be glad to
receive applications for enrolment forms.
Wales
Home Counties.
Surrey
Yorks
Kent
Essex
Lancashire
Cheshire
Oxon
Sussex
Devon
W orcestershire
Hampshire
Lincolnshire
Warwickshire
Middlesex
Derbyshire
Salop
Bucks
Nottinghamshire
Cambs.
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Somersetshire
Cornwall
Durham
Gloucester
Berkshire
Dorsetshire
Norfolk
Wiltshire
Foreign and Colonial.
U.S.A.
Africa
Australia
Canada
India
China
Newfoundland
France
Iraq
F.M.S.
Portugal
16
14
10
9
7
4
1
94
17
14
60
29
24
16
16
9
9
9
9
8
7
7
6
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
r
14
7
6
3
3
2
TO OUR BRANCH SECRETARIES
AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
The first quarter of 1933 has been by no means
inactive, and we are delighted to see such excel
lent progress at Colchester, where the first
reunion dinner of the Ypres League, Colchester
and District Branch, is being held on March
3°th.
Purley are still upholding their wonderful
reputation in adding to the membership roll,
and their annual reunion dinner was held on
March 15th (see Branch Notes). Major Graham
Carr has kindly allowed himself to be elected
Chairman of the Branch for 1933, and in addi
tion he has very generously taken on the duties
of Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. We take
this opportunity to thank Major Carr most
heartily for his immense enthusiasm, and we
wish the Branch every success under his leader
ship.
Our London County Committee have done
good work in holding some very successful
Gatherings during the past quarter.
News of Corporal Slater in Kenya and Captain
Burgess, of Madrid, will be found in Branch
Notes, and we are exceedingly indebted to these
gentlemen for their staunch support.
We are now looking forward optimistically to
a favourable travel season. A party of members
and friends will be spending the Easter week
end at Ypres, and on April 21st we are
organizing a party of the 167th Infantry Brigade
T.A. on a lecture tour of the Ypres Salient.
Whitsuntide will bring us a very busy week-end
when a party of the Coldstream Guards journey
to Ypres under our auspices, and a special
pilgrimage and independent travel will be
arranged in connection with the service in
St. George's Church, Ypres, to dedicate the
banner to Lord Plumer and other memorials
(see page 171). Also at Whitsuntide we are
organizing a four-day week-end battlefield tour
to Arras and a similar tour to Amiens (see pages
188. 189). Both these Battlefield Tours will be
repeated at the August Bank Holiday.
On May 26th to 29th the annual trip of the
85th Club will take place, making headquarters
at Ypres.
We ask our Branch Secretaries and Corres
ponding Members to repeat their courtesy of
past years by inserting a short notice in their
local Press about the League's travel facilities
to Ypres and other parts of the Western Front.
Such publicity is immensely helpful and ex
ceptionally valuable.
