LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
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The Ypres Times.
I should also like to draw the attention
of members to the week-end trips via Harwich
and Zeebrugge, which will be running from
the 27th of June to the 15th of September.
Leaving Liverpool Street Station at 8.40 p.m.
on Friday, you can reach Ypres at 10.48 p.m.
on Saturday. You leave it at 6.2 p.m.
on Sunday and get back to Liverpool Street at
8 a.m. on Monday morning. This allows the
greater part of two days at Ypres, without the
loss of a whole working day here. The cost,
including hotel accommodation, will work out at a
little under £4 first-class and £3 second-class.
Mr. Barber, our corresponding member for
Glasgow, is arranging for a special Scottish
Pilgrimage to travel via Hull. All interested
should communicate with him without delay.
THE GLASGOW GROUP.
We should like to draw the attention of all
members of the League to the report on another
page of the good start made by the Glasgow
group. It shows what the energy of one man can
do. Mr. Barber is a noted athlete. He is an old
Marathon runner, and coached the winner of this
year's Marathon on May 31st last.
THE LONDON SCOTTISH.
The London Scottish paid the League the
compliment of appointing it officer i/c Transport,
Supplies, and Billetting for the unveiling of their
War Memorial at Messines by the King of the
Belgians last month. They were kind enough to
express themselves as well satisfied with the
result. Other units with memorials to unveil,
please note
We hope to publish an account of the ceremony
in our next number.
APPRECIATIONS.
Coquitlam Avenue,
Port Coquitlam,
British Columbia,
Canada.
February 14th, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,I am much obliged to you for your
letter of the 23rd ultimo, and for the copy of
The Ypres Times of January, 1924, which is very
interesting to read. I am sure the objects for
which the League was founded will have the
support of all ex-Service men who were in the
Salient and of those who lost relatives and friends
there. It is even yet, after this lapse of time,
painful to think of the good friends who never
returned from that terrible inferno, during the
second battle of Ypres, as Sir Philip Gibbs so
fittingly describes them, the great heroic crowd,"
including all those who at one time and another
have trodden the via dolorosa to Passchendaele.
Yours very truly,
Edward D. Bki.i.ew.
Headquarters, 87th Infantry Bde., N.Y.N.G.,
Park Avenue and Thirty-fourth St.,
New York.
March 13 th, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
►a Dear Sir,Your receipt and notice of my
membership in the Ypres League have been
received and I want you to know how delighted
I am to find myself a member in an organization
that numbers among its lists comrades of the
British Empire who constantly won my admira
tion and esteem during the great days of the late
War in Flanders.
During those days I met many brave gentlemen,
for whom I have ever since felt the wannest
friendship, and I sometimes wonder what became
of them.
Should you ever assemble in meeting, speak
my warmest regards and best wishes to the crowd,
and tell them that there is one Yank over here
who really wishes he was back over there.
Sincerely Yours,
Ernest C. Drake,
Major, 87th Bde.
321, Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.
March 30th, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,I have just had my copy of
January Ypres Times and would like to congratu
late you on the splendid way the paper is now
produced.
The Memory Tablet is a very good idea and I
submit the following for your July issue.
September 26th, 1917, 2nd Suffolk Regt. cap
tured Zonnebeke village and church in a general
offensive. 2nd Australian Div. on their right
cleared Polygon Wood. I may mention a, tome,
remarkable coincidence the ground in and around
Zonnebeke was held till 8 a.m., September 26th,
by 3rd Reserve German Div., then by 3rd
British Div., and we were relieved October 1st,
by 3rd Australian Div., who went on and
took Brodseinde Ridge about October 4th, 1917.
With hundreds of divisions engaged, this must
have been pretty rare.
Best of luck and I hope the League is now
on a good sound footing.
Yours sincerely,
C. J. Hupfieed,
late Cpl., 2nd Suffolks.
