IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 27, 13 November 1935, Page 7

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY

BRITISH LEGION REVIEW.

SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS

(United Press' Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12.

The Prince of Wales, who represented the King at the Armistice Day celebrations in Edinburgh, later attended the British Legion revival of remembrance.

The Duke and Duchess of York were present at the British Legion review at Albert Hall, which 6000 ex-service-men attended. During the early part of the proceedings which were broadcast to the Empire, the Legion standards were played in by the massed Guards Bands. To the accompaniment of “Tipperary” and other old wartime tunes, in the choruses of which the audience lustily joined, Chelsea pensioners and representatives of nurses, soldiers, sailors of overseas forces and others marched in.

The second part of the programme was of a more solemn religious character, during which after “The Last Post” had been Sounded, and Admiral of the Meet, Earl Jellicoe, recited a verse of the poem “To The Fallen,” and poppy petals to the number of 1,104,890—the number of British dead in the late war—fluttered down irom the roof.

The festival ended with the sounding of the Reveille.