League Secretary's Notes
182
THE YPRES TIMES
We frequently walk in the Cemetery. There are buried not only Germans, English and French, but in
addition Italian and Russian prisoners. Everyone here saw them and saluted them, and they will
remain in our memory, for they were amongst the number of those brave men who have willingly
sacrificed everything to deliver us from those pigs of Germans. We shall never be able to thank
sufficiently those generous and courageous Lieutenants."
In the despatch from General Headquarters on the following day this episode is
summed up in the usual laconic six words
One of our machines is missing."
Of those airmen, and of all who are buried here and elsewhere, we might well write,
much as did Symonides in honour to the Greeks who fell at Plataea
If noble death the highest virtue be,
We, beyond all, the meed of honour hold
Eager to die, that England might be free,
We won by death the fame that grows not cold.
TO OUR NEW MEMBERS.
It is a great pleasure to welcome our many
new members who have joined since January 1st,
and we would like you all to bring the League's
aims and objects before your ex-service relatives
and friends. We should gladly welcome them
as members and issue the beautiful scroll cer
tificate to those who served in the Ypres Salient.
The annual subscription is only 5s. per annum.
Life Membership, 2 10s. The subscription also
includes the Ypres Times quarterly journal.
We trust you will find its columns interesting,
and if you are so good as to pass on your copy
to any prospective member we should be grateful
as this is excellent propaganda.
You will see on p. 189 of this number par
ticulars of our Pilgrimages to Ypres, and we
ask you to do everything in your power to make
these ever-popular four-day trips more widely
known. Whether those interested to join one
of our parties are members or not, we shall always
be very glad indeed to see them.
May we draw your attention to the competition
on p. 170. Recruiting is very active, and we
want all our new members to enter whole
heartedly into this competition, for there is plenty
of time to win it between now and the end of the
year. Thanking you in advance for your kind
support.
TO BRANCH SECRETARIES AND
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
It gives us much pleasure to welcome Mr. W.
R. Bird as corresponding member for Amherst,
Nova Scotia, and we feel very grateful to him
for his kind interest and valuable support.
We are glad to report that the first quarter
of the year, in spite of continued trade depression,
has been one of marked progress judging by the
increase in membership, and for this we extend
our very hearty thanks to all our loyal supporters
who are so generously giving much of their
valuable time to the interest of the League.
The outstanding successes for the quarter
have been our Purley Branch, under its enthusi
astic Hon. Secretary, Major Graham Carr
and our New York Branch, recently inaugurated
through the great initiative and kindness of
Captain R. Henderson-Bland, but the formation
of this active branch has only been made possible
through the interest and influence of Major-
General J. F. O'Ryan, who commanded the 27th
American Division which served with Lord
Plumer's Second Army in the Ypres Salient (see
p. 172).
Corporal Slater has also devoted a great deal
of time to the work of the League in Kenya, and
we are now able to publish a photograph of the
wreath placed on the Nairobi Cenotaph on
Armistice Day (see p. 186). Thanks are also
due to our joint representatives for Queensland,
