Ex-Service Men Wanted
Disability pensioners, for
part-time Agency employ
ment in every locality.
THE YPRES TIMES
249
TO OUR BRANCH SECRETARIES, REPRE
SENTATIVES AND CORRESPONDING
MEMBERS.
It is customary in the October edition of The
Ypres Times to give a short summary of the
League's work, but before doing so, we would
like to express our best thanks to all those who
have worked so hard throughout the year and
generously given their short leisure hours to the
welfare of the League. In connection with our
home organization, the London County Com
mittee deserve praise for the way in which they
keep the London members together in arranging
so successfully the monthly informal gatherings
and other important activities, which result in
new members joining. No less in evidence is
our Purley Branch under the enthusiasm of
Major Graham Carr, D.S.O., M.C. It has up to
the present eclipsed its previous records,
especially in the work of recruiting. It held a
highly successful reunion dinner last March, and
during the summer inaugurated a new League
branch activity in the golf competitions for the
Wipers Cup," which has proved a very popular
event.
Our thanks are also extended to Captain J.
Wilkinson of the Sheffield Branch, who has given
immense consideration and valuable time in
selecting poor mothers eligible to accompany
our Free Pilgrimage to Ypres last June.
Captain R. Henderson-Bland easily tops the
overseas' list. Through his wonderful organiz
ing powers an extensive and valuable League
colony has been well cemented in New York and
provinces, and membership is speedily mounting
up. We offer our very hearty thanks to Captain
Bland, Major-General J. F. O'Ryan, Colonel
Edward Olmsted, and other influential officers
who have shown such interest in the League.
Our old friend Captain Henry Maslin has done
well, too, in recruiting new members from his
105th U.S. Infantry Regiment, and we wish him
to accept our thanks.
Nineteen-Thirty-one, in spite of distressing
times, has been a year of considerable success in
the travel department, and we tabulate on page
248 the pilgrimages and tours which have taken
place.
Independent travel has also been up to stand
ard of past years, and our week-end trips have
repeated their popularity. In this connection
we publish a letter from a gentleman who has
travelled under the auspices of the League.
To The Secretary,
Ypres League. Sept. 4th, 1931.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to convey the thanks of Mr. L. E.
Coult and myself for the excellent arrangements
you were good enough to make on our behalf
when we visited Ypres last week-end.
The accommodation, food, etc., at the Hotel
Britannique were excellent, and the time-table
which you sent me was very clear and proved
most helpful.
As an ex-infantryman who served in the
.Salient on different occasions during '16, '17,
and '18, I much appreciated the various signs
marking historic places which have been erected
by the Ypres League. Re-visiting the Salient
after such a lapse of time and such changed
conditions, somewhat taxed the memory and
imagination, and it was good to have confirma
tion (by means of the League's signs) that places
one suspected to be in the vicinity were really
so
Thanking you once again for helping to make
our trip such a pleasant one,
I am,
Yours faithfully,
W. G. Mowle, M.M.
late 50th Division.
We cannot leave the travel department with
out mentioning the exceptional services of
Messrs. W. and C. J. Parminter, our repre
sentatives at Ypres. No praise can be too high
for their efficient Wipers Auto Service and for
the kind consideration and help they give to our
parties and independent travellers. We owe
them a deep debt of gratitude, which is also
extended to Captain Stuart Oswald, M.C., our
representative at Amiens, and to Mr. Vyner at
Arras, who has also been of great assistance to
the League during the year.
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