A PILGRIMAGE to one of the world's best-known war memorials is being joined by members of the Kendal and Langdales Royal British Legion branches this summer.
Daniel Airey, Ethan Close and Andrew Edgar will be bearing standards and laying a poppy wreath at Menin Gate, in Belgium, in August as part of the Royal British Legion's Great Pilgrimage 90.
One of the largest acts of remembrance in the charity's history, thousands of people are expected to take part in a parade and ceremony at Ypres, 90 years since the Legion's original pilgrimage in 1928. Back then, 11,000 veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme in France and Ypres in Belgium, a decade after the conflict ended.
Mr Airey is to lay a wreath on behalf of the Kendal community at the Menin Gate, where the names of more than 54,000 British Empire servicemen with no known grave are inscribed on the vast white Portland stone walls of the memorial arch.
Clive Sumpter, Kendal branch secretary, said: "Great Pilgrimage 90 is a unique opportunity for the Legion community to come together and bear our standards along the same route in Ypres taken 90 years earlier by the veterans and widows of the First World War."
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