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provided the necessary arrangements could be made, on the following Sunday, July
ioth. The Eritish Broadcasting Company, on being approached, regretted their inability
to allow an appealbut the}' courteously permitted the announcement of Bord Plumer's
message, and our thanks, and those of many pilgrims, are due to the B.B.C. for the
admirable way in which it was rendered.
The result exceeded all expectations. Sir William Berry, on behalf of the Daily
Sketch, subscribed 500 guineas, thereby removing all anxiety so far as the urgent cases
were concerned. The Daily Mail published Lord Plumer's S.O.S., and by July 12th
we had to close the Fund, as there was no more accommodation on the boat, which had
been specially chartered for the occasion.
The figures given below may be of interest to my readers.
Subscriptions to the Fund totalled £2,252 6s. Of the 593 subscribers who gave their
names, 450 resided in the country and 143 in London but thirteen of them gave no
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PILGRIMS OX THEIR WAY TO THE MENIN GATE.
address, so that in these particular instances the money could not be acknowledged.
£2,143 8s. 2d. was acknowledged. £26 8s. could receive no acknowledgment for the
reason already stated, and £82 10s. was sent anonymously.
Time did not permit of the requests of all the donors being carried out, and the
following cases still remain overThree Gunnersone Scots Guardsone
Wiltshire Regimentone King's Own Scottish Borderers one man from Lichfield.
I have communicated with the Old Comrades' Associations of the units concerned
and these relatives will be sent out next year.
While there is no need to describe here the Pilgrimage or the ceremony at the Menin
Gate, it is not possible to pass over the fortitude displayed by the pilgrims, especially
the mothers. With such parents, one ceases to wonder at the heroism and endurance
of their sons who laid down their lives for King and Country. The missing," as the
