The Ypres Times 19 The Ypres League was founded by Lt.-Col. Beckles Willson about a year ago. It is not an ex-soldiers' federation, nor a benefit societythere are sufficient of these excellent organisations now amalgamated into one. The League was founded on sentiment the sentiment of a nation whose Calvary was at Ypres, and its objects are to perpetuate the memory of all that Ypres means to us by keeping alive the spirit of comradeship, and by commemorating our 200,000 dead now lying out in the Salient. Lt.-Col. Beckles Willson gave up the Hon. Secretaryship in November, when the organisation of the League had but started, in order to take up important work in West Africa. Specimen of Certificate issued to Members who are relations of the killed, The progress of the League has not been very rapid lately, owing to the period of very serious trade depression that has lasted throughout the whole winter months and the summer., and from which we are now only just emerging. Even at this hour it is felt that thousands of ex-soldiers, who should obviously be the chief supporters of the League, are precluded from contributing to its support through poverty and unemployment. In spite of these drawbacks, however, the Secretary is pleased to report that Branches of the League have now been formed in the United Kingdom and in the Dominions, at the following places, where the annual re-unions of Members are being arranged Aberdeen, Aldershot, Bedford, Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Carlisle, Cork, Cornwall, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gravesend, Ipswich, Inverness, Lancaster, Leeds, Lei cester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesborough, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Nottingham, Norwich, Oxford, Preston, Reading, Salisbury, Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, St. Alban's, Walsall, Waterford, Weymouth, Worcester and Wrexham. Natal, Rhodesia, Cape Town, Pretoria, Christchurch, Delhi, Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires, Actual size, u in. x yi in.

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