VETERANS PARADE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13746, 30 May 1910, Page 6

VETERANS PARADE.

MEMORIAL SERVICE IN VICTORIA , f. ' SQUARE. * •¥ A jmradt* of South African veterans &* and hcnip.r veterans who Jiavo taken??? part in th© various wars the Empire, •& as held in Victoria yesterday afternoon. The round the. Queen Victoria btatno te< ( eluded the Mayor (Mr C. Alli'sOß), , " Archdeacon Ensor, Chaplain-Captsui\* Non is, Umit.-Colonel Slater, Major Hobday, and Captain Bishop. senior veterans and' fifty-seven tiouih ,'- African veteians, with four o|Eeenv ? ' paraded, Surgeon-Captain Fcnwicj:' l being in charge of the "brigado. The. >- Garrison Band, whose strength wa» - thirty, also paraded under Lieutenant ,- Merton. The order of sorvice was as follows:—Hymn, "For Ever with tho '- Lord"; hymn, "Onward. Christian ,■ Soldiers"'; prayer by Archdeacon Ensor; U address by the Mayor; air by Garrison *. Batud, "Where are tho Boys of tho Old H ' Brigade S , " ; address by Lieut.-Coloncl -,rSlater: hymn, "The Son of God Goes ; Forth to War"; address, Chaplain-Cap* , '*, tain Norris. - ',' Several beautiful wrqaths wero laid ■„ on tho railing round the statue during .< tho service. Clia-plain-Captain Norns wlio served' * in tho South African war, during the] :* course of his remarks, said ( that with nil the horr;w& of war there were times in ■„ the history of tho «orld wh»»»i peacp,'--lafetiiiß and honourable, wa& impossible without war. it teem paradox!- '', <*al, but soldifrs made peaco. Apart ;" from th<; subsequent poaco which wart;, resulted in, it also brought out the good- , :" or l.'itfnt evil in men. That day theyj" weio Jiouonrins the- memory.of' men were sleeping on thp veldt.f" , nnd who had died in the service of their , ', King and country, and who were, faith- J ful even unto death. Many of their X comrades who had diod had been inti-". mately known to them, and 6omf> of, < . them had born &itlendid men. Even "" aftei Uio lapse of nine years ho ifltf ' still moved vory strongly when 'fco thought of the sufterinc these men lia'l undergone, uncomplainingly, and of , their splendid unseltishnmfi. It ira* v surli men as thp«.r nho had helped to : niako the British nation what it was. ■ ' Wβ had had handed down to us nobJo >. tinditions. and we hnd the tremendous responsibility of handing doivn onr . splendid henlage to the generations yet to come ■ ■" I, __ "Hod Save the King,',' played br the ' Garti&on Band, concluded an impressird ceremony, and the brii'sdp then - 1 ; marched to the King Edward Barracks, , where they were dwrniioed.