Free Pilgrimage to the Menin Gate
and Tyne Cot Memorials.
THE YPRES TIMES
87
June 6th, 1928.
Dear Sir,
My Committee are most anxious that the work of the Ripon branch of the
Ypres League in our cause should be fully acknowledged. Below is a list of
what the members are undertaking, and I hope that you will be able to express
through your columns the extreme gratitude of the Committee for their devoted
work. The Committee fully realize that the gifts not only represent monetary
contributions, but numberless hours of very fine and delicate work done by the
donors in their spare time.
GIFTS OF ALTAR LINEN, CARPET, AND KNEELER.
Altar Linen (Set 2) given by Miss E. Booth. Worked by Miss M. Kershaw (hemstitching), Miss E.
Garnett (hemstitching), Miss M. Greenhow (hemstitching), Miss D. Pallister (embroidery), Miss
E. S. Reid (embroidery), Miss E. Booth (lace).
Altar Linen (Set 2), given by Miss E. Booth. Worked by Sisters of Hospice Convent, Locre, Belgium.
Altar Carpet. Given by Misses E. S. Reid, C. Bartram, M. Kershaw, N. Monk, P. Matthews, E. Garnett,
M. Greenhow, D. Pallister and G. Wheldon, all members of the Ypres League. There were also
subscriptions from various members of the 5th Ripon Ranger Company, collected by Miss
G. Wheldon. Carpet worked by Mrs. Walker, Misses M. Walker, E. S. Reid, P. Matthews, D. Monk
and the Misses Robson.
Kneeler given and worked by Mrs. Walker and Miss M. Walker.
Yours, etc.,
F. G. Poole, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Secretary, Hon. Secretary, Ypres Memorial Church Fund.
Ypres League,
9, Baker Street, W.i.
ON June 30th the League is defraying the total cost of a Pilgrimage to Ypres,
comprising 97 individuals from England, Scotland and Wales. The great
majority of these are poor mothers and wives whose sons and husbands are
among the missing" who fell in the Salient and whose names are inscribed on the
Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Memorials. It is hoped that this pilgrimage may be a
source of comfort and consolation to these bereaved and sorrowing people, who
have waited in vain for news of the resting-places of their loved ones.
The money expended is part of the funds raised through Field-Marshal Lord
Plumer's appeal in July, 1927, for the purpose of sending out indigent relatives
of the "missing" to witness the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate
Memorial.
The pilgrimage, conducted by the secretary, will remain at Ypres for two
nights, returning on July 2nd.
Services, at which the Rev. G. R. Milner, M.A., the newly-appointed resident
chaplain, will officiate, will be held for the pilgrims on Sunday morning, July 1st,
at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.
