BERLIN CEREMONY
British Honours Conferred On V Russian Commanders MONTGOMERY OFFICIATES •Rec:Vll a.m. '. • LONDON, July 12. Standing by a flag-draped table at the shell-scarred Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Field-Marshal Montgomery, British commander in Germany, hung a scarlet sash with a white and gold cross over the shoulder of Marshal Zhukov, head of the Russian occupation forces in Germany, thus decorating him on behalf of the King with the Order of Grand Commander of the Bath.
:: : Marshal Rokossovsky, leader , of the Soviet forces which conquered Danzig and Stettin, received the Order of Knight Commander cf the Bath.
Decorations were also conferred on ten other Red Army commanders in a simple but formal military ceremony. Two hundred men from the first battalion of the Grenadier Guards and one tank squadron from the Eighth Hussars and an armoured car squadron from . the Eleventh Hussars, formed the guard of honour for the commanders.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 5
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