BATTLEFIELDS PILGRIMAGE.
A special" pilgrimage to the war graves and battlefields of Palestine, Gallipoli, France, and Belgium is being organised by the Victorian branch ol the Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs. It is proposed that the party shall leave Australia in the new Orient liner Orcades in March next year, and, after a four of the Holy Land, disembark at Gallipoli about May 11, spend nearly two weeks in France. and reach” London at the beginning of June. The tour will not be confined to returned soldiers, but will be open to all sections of the community. Particularly, the president of the Gallipoli Legion (Mr A. H. Puttick-AVynn) says, is the pilgrimage designed to appeal to the younger people of Australia and New Zealand. The legion felt that the tradition built up by the Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the Great War could be kept in full vigour in the future only by an intimate understanding of its birth. For those to whom the war was merely history, the only way to gain that understanding was to see the thousands of graves in special cemeteries built by the Imperial War Graves Commission in all theatres of war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 2
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197BATTLEFIELDS PILGRIMAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 2
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