Ypres British School
THE YPRES TIMES 101
King Leopold's Memorable Visit
Viscountess Plumer Distributes the Prizes
By Henry Benson, M.A.
pay a brief visit to the British School, where 120 British children are being educated,
With few exceptions, the pupils are sons and daughters of employees of the Imperial
War Graves Commission, who tend the British cemeteries and memorials in the Salient,
and they are receiving a first-rate general education, on parallel lines with that which
obtains in our elementary schools at home.
Readers of the Ypres Times will recollect that the school was built and equipped
five years ago by Etonians as a memorial to those 342 Etonians who made the supreme
sacrifice in and around Ypres during the tragic years, 1914-18.
King Leopold was at school at Eton during the early period of the War, and it was
in the role of an Etonian that he paid his much-appreciated visit. His Majesty, who
displayed a lively interest in all he saw, was received by Countess Haig, Viscountess
Plumer, Lieut.-General Sir William and Lady Pulteney, the Rev. E. H. Thorold
(Chaplain-General to the Army), the Hon. Mrs. Adeane, the Rev. Archibald Fleming,
WHEN King Leopold of Belgium went to Ypres on Sunday, 29th July, for the
purpose of inaugurating the restored belfry tower of the Cloth Hall and the
carillon which has been installed therein, he took advantage of the occasion to
Photo] [Daniel, Ypres
LITTLE MISS BARBARA ALLEN PRESENTING BOUQUET TO KING LEOPOLD
