1919 Nov 23 Port Said Orphans and Sisvan school students arriving Port Mersin

On November 23, 1919, the Port-Said orphans and Sisvan School students arrived at Port Mersin through the English military transport ship. As it was under the guidance of the Boy Scouts and the Marching band, the orphanage students marched in front of the Franch and British military bases. Back then, His Holiness Catholicos of Cilicia, who had arrived from Adana the same day, blessed the orphanage students from the balcony of Port Mersin. (Nov-Dec 1919, No. 71, p. 89) The picture of the AGBU Port-Said orphans in front of the new Mersin Orphanage.