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The Ypres Times.
THE JUNIOR DIVISION.
Members are fully aware of this important
branch of the League. Our object is to keep
CHRISTOPHER OLLIVANT.
alive the memory of the immortal defence
of Ypres, not only for this generation, but
for generations to come, and we count on
our junior members to play their part in
keeping up an everlasting commemoration.
The League lantern lecture on the four
battles of Ypres has been given at various
public schools, and it is encouraging to
know that the J unior membership has
increased in consequence.
All boys and girls are eligible to join up
to the age of eighteen, at one shilling per
annum. They may be lineal descendants,
or near relatives of men who served in the
Ypres Salient, or sympathisers with the
League's great object. Each member re
ceives a scroll certificate suitably worded.
On attaining the age of eighteen they can
be enrolled as full subscribing members at
Eve shillings per annum.
The London County Committee of the
League organises each year a Christmas
Tree Party for the Junior members, which
is always exceedingly well attended.
We have pleasure in reproducing a photo
graph of Master Christopher Ollivant, taken
in the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres, and
one of little Miss Ann Browne, the first
child in Spain to join the Junior Division.
We hope that many more will come forward
both at home and abroad during 1927.
We appeal to our branches and corre
sponding members to do all in their power
to spread the movement by explaining to
the children the wonderful heroism dis
played by so many thousands of brave
troops who saved the homes of the younger
generation from destruction.
Memories of the war are too deeply en
graved in the minds of those whose lives
have been spared to be forgotten, but it
is their duty to prepare the future genera
tion for any self-sacrifice, and to make
them realise the true meaning of war.
Tell ye your children of it, and
Let your children tell their children
And their children another generation."
ANN BROWNE.
