August Pilgrimage to Ypres.
Extract from the Minutes of a Committee Meeting
held on July x6th, 1929.
THE YPRES TIMES
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8, Greycoat Gardens,
Westminster, S.W.
July, 1929.
My Dear Sir,
Will you be so good as to read the enclosed to your Committee, and assure
them that it gives me the greatest pleasure to send it, as I think of what the League
has meant for me personally during the past five years?
Yours very truly,
Herbert Bury,
Assistant Bishop of London,
Chairman of the Ypres Memorial Settlement.
The Hon. Secretary and Treasurer brought to the notice of the Committee the generous contribu
tion of £500 19s. iod. from the Ypres League for the Pilgrim's Hall, and the fact that for four years the
League had allowed their office to be used in aid of the Fund.
Proposal carried unanimously 'That the Chairman should convey the warmest thanks of the
Committee to the Ypres League for their generosity and kindness.'
ON August 3rd, a conducted party left Victoria Station at 7.40 a.m., travelling
to Ypres via Ostend. We had a comfortable journey, considering the diffi
culty of manoeuvre among the usual Bank Holiday crowds. We reached our
destination at 4 p.m., and comfortable accommodation was provided at the Hotels
Skindles, and Splendid and Britannique.
Sunday morning was spent attending services at the British Church, and in
visiting many cemeteries in the Salient, and in the afternoon a charabanc trip was
arranged, the route being by way of St. Jean, Wieltje, St. Julien, Vancouver Cross
Roads, Winnipeg Cross Roads, Kansas Cross, Gravenstafel, Passchendaele Ridge,
Tyne Cot, Broodseinde, Becelaere, Kruiseik. Menin Road to Gheluvelt, Inverness
Copse, Clapham Junction, Hooge, Maple Copse, Sanctuary Wood, Hill 62, Birr
Cross Roads, Hell Fire Corner, Zillebeke, Knoll Road, Zwarteleen, Hill 60, Trans
port Farm, Shrapnel Corner, returning via Lille Gate.
A whole-day tour of the battle-front was organized on the Monday, as far as
Arras; the places en route were: Kemmel, Daylight Corner Road, Neuve Eglise,
Steenwerck, Estaires, Neuve Chapelle, Le Touret, Essars, Bethune, Aix Noulette,
ivoeux les Mines, Souchez, Vimy Ridge, La Targette (Canadian dug-outs and
German cemetery with 40,000 graves), St. Catharine, Arras; returning via
Roclincourt, Thelus, Vimy Ridge and Tunnels, Petit Vimy, Avion, Lens, Hill 70,
Hohenzollern Redoubt, Loos, La Bassée, Fauquissart, Fleurbaix, Armentières, Le
Bisset, Ploegsteert, The Strand, Hyde Park Corner, Hill 63, Messines, Wytschaete,
St. Eloi, Lille Gate.
Also on the same day five of the pilgrims made a tour by private car to
Waterloo, via Ghent and Brussels.
On Tuesday the pilgrims returned to London, feeling they had had a very
successful trip, and were all very much impressed with what they had seen,
especially the upkeep of the beautiful cemeteries.
