PILGRIMAGES TO YPRES AND THE SOMME. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. BRITISH MOTOR TOURS The Vpres Times. 115 EASTER (Y'PRES). Leave London Saturday, April 16th. Return Tuesday, April 19th. WHITSUNTIDE (SOMME). Leave London Saturday, June 4th. Return Tuesday, June 7th. AUGUST (YPRES). Leave London Saturday, July 30th. Return Tuesday, August 2nd. Note.—For the organisation of any of the above Pilgrimages a minimum of twenty-five persons is necessary. For further particulars apply to the Secretary, Ypres League, 9, Baker Street. Portman Square, London, W.I. The Annual General Meeting of the Ypres League will be held on Monday, March 7th, 1927, at 6 p.m., at 9, Baker Street, W.i. MEMBERSHIP OF THE LEAGUE. This is open to all who served in the Salient, and to all those whose relatives or friends died there, in order that they may have a record of that service for themselves and their descendants, and belong to the comradeship of men and women who understand and remember all that Ypres meant in suffering and endurance. Life membership, £2 10s. Annual members, 5s. Special charges are made to those who cannot afford the 5s. subscription. Do not let the fact of your not having served in the Salient deter you from joining the Ypres League. Those who have neither fought in the Salient nor lost relatives there, but who are in sympathy with the objects of the Vpres League, are admitted to its fellowship, but are not given scroll certificates. There is also a J unior Division to which children of those who served in the Salient, also those who sympathise with our objects, have a right to belong. Annual subscriptions Is. up to the age of 18, after which they can become ordinary members of the League. ALMA AND YPRES. Green wreaths of glory still enshrine The heroes of the Thin Red Line Thrice told the valour of their blood In khaki streaks on Flander s flood. Captain R. Boyd Robson. London Garage, Menin Gate, YPRES. Tours daily round the Salient. British ex-Service Drivers. Moderate Terms. "THE GREAT SILENCE." (November 11th.) Around the CenotaphWhat better, truer homage Can we bestow on theseOur Glorious Dead The highest with the least! By thought alone, united, Whilst over all, a sacred hush is spread. Brave men! We bow in reverence to thee, Thanking our God, Who gives usMemory. A. M. F.

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