Branch Notes. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THE YPRES TIMES 9i PURLEY BRANCH. The Spring Golf Meeting held on May 26th, at Purley Downs Golf Club, was very successful. Forty-four members competed, the weather was excellent and the result was a tie between Dr. L. Meakin and Mr. N. R. Crute with a return of one up on bogey. As the Doctor was unable to stay, the tie could not be decided then and there, and will be played off shortly. A supper followed, which was thoroughly en joyed, and the general conclusion was that the competition for the Third Wipers Cup was the most successful golf effort of this Branch so far. THE BOMBARDIER'S FOURSOMES. Following the unqualified success of the Golf Competition for the Third Wipers Cup, the Chairman of the Purley Branch, Bombardier E. A. R. Burden, has very sportingly proposed a Foursome Knock-out Golf Competition to be played by members of the Branch during the summer. The winners will hold cups for a year and receive a prize. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the YPRES LEAGUE (incorporated) will be held at 9, BAKER STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON, W.i, on MONDAY, JULY 18th, 1932, at 6 p.m. NEW YORK BRANCH. The outstanding event in New York during the past quarter, in which many of our members actively participated, was undoubtedly the Army Day Parade on April 2nd, a celebra tion now held annually in America to mark the entry of the United States into the world war. The parade, numbering some 18,000, included units of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, Veterans' organizations of America and its Allies in the world war, a police force regiment of infantry, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other patriotic societies, and was reviewed by General John J. Pershing, that much-admired and respected Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during the Great War. On the General's arrival at the stand he re viewed the old Artillery unit, being escorted past it by Colonel George W. Burleigh (Ypres League Executive Member of the New York Branch). Martial airs were played by as many as twenty- two bands and the parade took an hour and a half to pass the reviewing stand. Colonel Edward Olmsted, as Marshal, led the Veterans' organiza tion past the saluting base, on whose staff appeared the Ypres League representative in America, Captain R. Henderson Bland. Mem bers of the League in the reviewing officer's box with General Pershing included General J. F. O'Ryan, General Cornelius Vanderbilt (Marshal of the Parade), General J. Leslie Kincaid, Colonel Edward Olmsted, Colonel George W. Burleigh, Colonel Franklin Q. Brown and the Hon. A. A. Smith. At the saluting base Captain Bland was pre sented to General Pershing and we are proud to know that he was so cordially received. The General's keen interest in the principles of the Ypres League greatly strengthens the prestige of the League in America as well as giving enormous encouragement to Captain Bland and his executive colleagues. Prior to the parade Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt (Ypres League Executive Member of the New York Branch) gave a luncheon in honour of General Pershing at the Army Navy Club, which was attended by a very distinguished gathering. We take this opportunity to express our deep regret in the recent death of one of our Life Members, Brigadier-General William Barclay Parsons, who personally attended the above parade. General Parsons was a great person ality, widely known on both sides of the Atlantic, being specially remembered as the man who planned and engineered the first of New York City's subways and as the only foreigner ever summoned by the British Government to advise on the problem of London street traffic. The nth Engineers, which he helped to raise and eventually command, were the first body of American troops, except for medical men, to be

HISTORISCHE KRANTEN

The Ypres Times (1921-1936) | 1932 | | pagina 29