League Secretary's Notes. THE YPRES TIMES 219 TO OUR NEW MEMBERS. We look forward in each edition of the Ypres Times to welcome those who have joined the League during the last quarter. Since April we are glad to report a steady flow of new members who have come to our assistance from all parts of the world but there are still many thousands with tender memories of the old days in Flanders who ought to belong to the Ypres League, and we make a strong appeal to all new members „to get in touch with your ex-service friends, and persuade them to come forward and share the work of keeping alive the great deeds, sacrifices, and fellowship of the war. We ask you all to make yourselves well acquainted with the aims and objects of our Association, and we shall always be delighted to supply you with membership forms at your kind request. We would like you to remind your friends that a Scroll Certificate is given as a record of service to all who sèrved in the Ypres Salient, and to those whose relatives died in its Immortal Defence. You will earn our deepest gratitude by doing all in your power to support us in our work of commemoration. We request that you give as much publicity as possible to our pilgrimages to the Ypres Salient. These tours are always conducted by the Secretary, and by this means we are able to come in personal contact with members and their friends. TO BRANCH SECRETARIES AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. It is a pleasure to announce that we have been fortunate to secure the services of Mr. O. G. Johnson and Mr. W. H. Taylor, who have kindly consented to act as our Corresponding Members for Loughton, and Colchester respectively, and we wish them every success in their future efforts in furthering the aims and objects of the League. We thank all who have given valuable help in recruiting during the past three months. Special thanks are due to our Purley Branch, who have added so considerably to our member ship as a result of their re-union Dinner, held on April 17th, particulars of which will be found on page 218. We heartily congratulate this Branch, under the able direction of Major H. G. Harris (Chairman) and Major Graham Carr (Hon. Secretary), and in addition we are very grateful for the support of Capt. E. Featherstone, the former Branch Secretary. We trust that Purley's good example will be followed by other provincial branches. Mr. L. E. P. Foot (Conn., U.S.A.), Capt. Wilkinson (Sheffield), Mrs. R. H. Hill (Birming ham), Capt. Maslin (New York), and London County Committee have also deserved our grateful thanks for their continued work in recruiting. Good news comes from Colonel E. G. Crouch, our Corresponding Member for Gateshead. He has lately been giving addresses on the objects of the League to the Newcastle Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association, and to the Felling and District National Disabled Ex-Servicemen's Association. We have received a letter from Mr. J. T. Miller (Hon. Secretary of the Felling Association) to the effect that the members were giving serious consideration to forming a branch of the League in the near future. We hope to be able to say more about the prospects of this coming branch in the next October Ypres Times. It has been a great pleasure for us at Head quarters to have had welcome visits from Colonel G. J. Henderson, now home from Kenya Colony. He arrived in time to attend our Annual Dinner, which was a very successful re-union, thanks to the excellent arrangements made by our London County Committee (see page 217). Our Easter pilgrimage to Ypres was favoured with beautiful weather, and the party spent their week-end visiting the cemeteries and old battle haunts. At Whitsuntide we organized our usual pilgrimage to Ypres, and in addition a party of forty-five members of the South Wales Borderers travelled under our auspices to unveil their Memorial at Gheluvelt, an account of which appears on page 200. Also at Whitsuntide we defrayed the entire expenses of a party of poor pilgrims from their homes in Halifax to the cemeteries around Amiens. On July 6th, we are organizing another free pilgrimage for the purpose of visiting graves situated in the Ypres Salient. Our August Bank Holiday pilgrimage to Ypres will take place from August 3rd6th. The latest League publication, Ypres, Outpost of the Channel Ports," is now on sale at Headquarters, and may also be obtained from our representative at Ypres, Capt. Parminter, 19 Rue Surmont de Volsberg, and from his Ostend headquarters, 16 Galerie James Ensor. All those wishing to revisit the present- day battlefields of the Salient should buy a copy, price 2s. 6d., post free 2S. iod. In conclusion, it is our desire to ask Branch Secretaries and Corresponding Members to make their best endeavours to increase the interest of the League, and we feel confident in your kind support.

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