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being hallowed to the memory of Guards, Worcesters, Middlesex, Londons, Staffords,
and others of the old Army units.
Hill 60, Hill 62, Clapham Junction, Glencorse Wood, Inverness Copse, Zillebeke,
Locre, Shrapnel Corner, St. Julien, the Steenbeekwe used to call it Stinkbeek,"
and mean iteach, you will find, is writ with undying deeds of British Arms in The
Battle Book of Ypres and the companion Ypres League publications, The Immortal
Salient and YpresOutpost of the Channel Ports." They are books you should
own and treasure.
At the top of the old bottle-neck line of shell holes, floods, mud and carnage, that
many of us on the pilgrimage knew too well in the far-off sanfaryan days, a halt was
made at Tyne Cot, well up on the Ridge, south-west of Passchendaele.
This is the largest of over two hundred British cemeteries in Belgium, with over
12,000 burials70 per cent, unidentified Soldiers of the Great War, known unto God
and 35,000 names on the panels to the missing that constitute the memorial at the
head of the cemetery.
One pilgrim was seeing his son's name on the Artillery panels at Tyne Cot for the
first time. Next day, with Captain de Trafford for guide, he was seeing, also for the
first time, the strong point where he was killed. In much the same manner was each
individual pilgrimageexquisitely sad to the pilgrimsatisfied.
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THE PILGRIMS AT YPRES.
[L. DuhameeuwYpres.
