A pilgrimage of British ex-soldiers who fought in Palestine during the war will leave London on May 3rd. for the battlefields and war graves of Palestine. The pilgrimage, which was the outcome of a talk at a regimental dinner, will consist mainly of old comrades of the Queen’s Westminster Rifles, the London Scottish, and other regiments who served in Palestine. Wives of ex-soldiers who fought in Palestine and widows of men who fell in Palestine will accompany the party.
The programme will allow for eight days in Jerusalem, and there will be visits to places of Biblical interest, as well as to the battlefields and war cemeteries.
Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, who has just returned from a visit of inspection of war graves’ in India, Iraq and Palestine, told the press yesterday that in Palestine he was much struck by the great improvement in the horticultural work and the growth of trees and shrubs. At Haifa there were 308 graves, Ramleh 3,686, Jerusalem 2,534, Beersheba 1,239, Gaza 3,177 and Deir-el-Belah 669. Perhaps the cemetery to receive the most attention was that on the Mount of Olives, which was one of the most impressive monuments at Jerusalem. Beersheba was the one cemetery where the flowers and shrubs were not satisfactory. There had been difficulties from drought and locusts.
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