PARADE TO ST. PAUL'S.
EX-SERVICE MEN IN MUFTI,
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, March 15,
Played to St. Paul's by the Welsh Guards and Royal Artillery Bands, 1400 "Old Contemptibles" in mufti, with their war medals, paraded to church under the eyes of field-marshals and admirals, civic dignitaries and the French and Belgian Ambassadors, after which the Lord Mayor of London took the i salute at a march past at the Mansion House. Wounded ex-servicemen in bath chairs led the procession, the divisions of which were marked by massed colours of draped crepe in token of the Royal mourning.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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98PARADE TO ST. PAUL'S. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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