Old scouts invited to retrace pilgrimage

AM trying to contact any former members of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland who travelled on the scout pilgrimage to Rome in March 1934 on the ocean liner Lancastria.

Nearly 500 scouts joined a total of 1,200 pilgrims on a memorable trip to Gibraltar, Naples and Rome where they had an audience with Pope Pius XI. Old photographs, cine film or other memorabilia would be of great interest.

Scouting Ireland is planning a major commemoration of the event next month in the national campsite at Larch Hill outside Dublin.