CHARLES I.
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
LAMENT AND " LAST POST." (BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION'— COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 31st, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 30. The surprise caused by tho Scots pipers playing a lament and tho Scots Guards sounding "The Last Post" during yesterday's Trafalgar square service in memory of King Charles the First recalled that two years ago, when the Grenadier Guards' buglers sounded "The Last Post," Mr Stephen Walsh, M.P., then. Secretary for War, said that a mistake had been mado in allowing the Army to participate, and there would be no repetition of the incident. Ma.jor Ross, Commanding-Officer of the Scots Guards, said: "I have 110 knowledge of the matter. It is clear that tho application was received during the command of my predecessor, who ia now in Ireland."
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18604, 1 February 1926, Page 9
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