Free Pilgrimage to Ypres
June 30thJuly and.
THE YPRES TIMES 117
O.N June 30th the League organized a free Pilgrimage to Ypres, the cost of
which was defrayed out of the fund established as a result of Lord Plumer's
broadcast appeal in July, 1927. The party consisted of 97 deserving cases,
drawn from all parts of the United Kingdom, the majority of them being poor
mothers and wives whose sons and husbands are among the missing who fell
in the Salient and whose names have been inscribed on the Menin Gate and Tyne
Cot Memorials.
PhotoDanielYpres
PILGRIMS AT YPRES.
All the pilgrims travelling from a distance were accommodated in London on
both the outward and the homeward journey. The three and a half hours' Channel
crossing from Dover to Ostend, looked forward to by the pilgrims with doubtful
pleasure, was made under ideal weather conditions. Light refreshments were
served and enjoyed by the party, many members of which had left their homes at
a very early hour.
The Belgian port was reached at 3.45 p.m., which allowed us a comfortable
margin of time to get through the usual Customs formalities, always a
somewhat trying and fatiguing ordeal.
The monotonous train journey from Ostend to Ypres was tiring and weari
some, and the seats of the third-class compartments felt very hard before we
reached our destination. Here we were met by Messrs. W. and C. J. Parminter,
with a car which they had thoughtfully provided for the transport of the heavier
