The Junior Division.
40
The Ypres Times.
By MAJOR E. MONTAGUE JONES
"Tell ye your children of if., and
let your children tell their children
and their children another generation."
The steady increase in membership of the
Junior Division is a very encouraging sign
of the progress of the League both in the
Old Country and the Coloniesseveral
Schools have taken the matter up and have
started their own centres. We give in this
issue a picture of two new members, and
injlater issues we hope to print groups as
GEORGE F. L. PORTER.
the movement spreads. We are most
anxious to extend this movement because
we feel that unless the younger generation,
to whom the War was not such a real thing
and some of whom were too young to
understand its importance and magnitude,
have these things explained to them, and
unless they realise the vital importance to
them and to the nation of the successful
defence of the Salient at Ypres, the memory
ALEXANDER HILL.
of this defence and the glories surrounding
it will gradually fade into oblivion, and
become simply an extra chapter of history
to learn.
We would like to explain to all who are
interested how a Junior branch or centre
of the League may be formed the simplest
way of doing this is perhaps to recount how
the latest Centre has been formed at a School
in Hertfordshirethe headmaster, who
himself served in the Salient in 1914,
applied to the Secretary of the League
at 9, Baker Street, W.I, for a copy of the
Lecture on the Ypres League and Salient
and for the loan of the 42 lantern slides
which are kept at headquarters to illus
trate this lecture on receiving the lecture
and the slides he put up a notice to the
effect that be would give a lecture on The
Defence of Ypres," and the Ypres League,
and invited all members of the School and
their friends to attend the lecture was well
attended, and at the conclusion two of the
senior boys who had expressed their willing
ness to do so proposed that they should
form a branch in connection with the School
and asked all who were willing to join and
