The Ypres Times.
The Ypres League has
now been estabhshed for
more than seven years,
and yet it must be
owned that compara
tively few are fully
acquainted with the
noble work it has been
able to accomplish in
the past or of its poten
tiality for good service
in the future. It was
founded not only to
encourage the reunion
of all comrades who met
at Ypres, not only to
provide funds for and
assist in sending pil
grims to the Salient, but
to foster and perpetuate
the memory of those
who gave their lives for
their country in that
great and terrible
struggle
At a few minutes to
eleven o'clock H.R.H.
Princess Beatrice ar
rived at the Cenotaph,
and was received by
Lieut.-General Sir Her
bert Uniacke A goodly
company awaited her
there, among whom
should be mentioned the
Belgian Ambassador,the
High Commissioner of
Ph°to] [London News Agency Ltd, Australia_ Major C A_
Sergeant O. Brooks, V.C., Wirn League Wreath. Arthur for the High
Commissioner of Canada,
Capt. G. E. de Trafford, Secretary of the League, and the following members of the
Executive The Hon. Alice Douglas Pennant and Miss Brice-Miller, Capt. H. D. Hyams
and Major C. E. Goddard. Sergeant O. Brooks, of the Coldstreams, who won his V.C.
at Loos, took charge of the wreath. This wreath, composed of lilies and chrysanthemums,
on a background of blue cornflowers, was laid by H.R.H. Princess Beatrice at the base
of the Cenotaph. A further emblem of brown chrysanthemums, orchids and autumn
foliage was placed by the High Commissioner on behalf of the Government and people
of Australia.
The gathering theu proceeded to the Abbey and was met by the Dean of Westminster,
Dr. W. Foxley Norris, D.D., who, at the grave of the Unknown Warrior, after a minute's
silence, addressing Her Royal Highness and all around in one of those short, deliberate,
quiet addresses that must have impressed all who heard it, said Let us for a moment
