A Re-union at Grosvenor House.
The Seventy-First New York in the
World War.
The Ypres Times.
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A gathering has been arranged to take place at Grosvenor House, 33, Upper
Grosvenor Street, London, W.i, kindly lent for the occasion by the Duke of Westminster,
in the afternoons of Wednesday and Thursday, the 9th and 10th of July.
An exhibition of pictures, drawings, maps, souvenirs and photographs will be held.
A film illustrating the St. Barnabas Pilgrimages to the War Graves will be shown.
The Band of H.M. Scots Guards will play from 3.30 to 5.30 each afternoon.
It is hoped all those who served in the Salient will come, also relatives and anybody
interested in that historic Defence, more especially those from the Dominions who are now
visiting this country.
Prices of admission
Wednesday 3-5 p.m. 5/- 5-7 p.m. 2/6
Thursday 3-5 p.m. 2/- 5-7 p.m. 1/-
Half price to members of the League wearing the badge.
F.M. The Earl of Ypres and F.M. Lord Plumer have both promised to be present on
Wednesday, the 9th of July, at 3 p.m., and welcome those attending.
Tickets can be obtained from the Secretarv, Ypres League, 36, Eaton Place, London,
S.W.i.
Compiled by ROBERT STEWART SUTLIFFE, Treasurer, 71st Infantry, N.Y.N.G.
Historian.
In the six years that have followed upon the close of the World War a series of military
literature has appeared dealing with it from every possible point of view. Victors and
vanquished have compiled and are in process of compiling their official accounts of the
events which brought them into the War and of all that happened during the four years
that the War endured. In the British Army very many brigade and divisional histories
have appeared, and there can hardly be a regiment which served in the War which is not
engaged in the production of a record of all that its battalions did and suffered in the various
theatres in which the operations of the greatest of all wars were conducted.
But in this country we are not much in the way of seeing the regimental, or even for
the matter of that the larger, histories which our Allies are preparing and have produced,
and for this reason the appearance of such a war record as that of the 71st New York
is very welcome and there must be many ex-Service men in the United Kingdom and
in the British Dominions overseas who will be glad to hear again of the members of a
regiment who were largely trained by British non-commissioned officers and who
contributed to the final triumph of the Allied cause in 1918.
In one particular this record of the 71st New York differs from the ordinary regimental
history which all of us have read and which some of us perhaps have assisted to compile.
The early history of the regiment from its commencement in 1850 had already been written,
and during sixty-eight years its activities had been chronicled, but the compilation of its
war record presented unusual difficulties for two reasons in the first place, all the records
connected with the period immediately preceding the entry of the United States into the
War had been sent to Washington and for some reason which is not disclosed were in
accessible while secondly, the regiment did not go to France as a complete unit but its
identity was destroyed by the transferring of all its men to other organizations, these
serving in over 300 corps and departments of the Army, Navy and Marines.
The 71st had returned from the Texas border over 1,600 strong in the autumn of 1916,
