ROYAL VISIT TO WOUNDED SOLDIERS
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 1. Tlio King and Queen spent two and a half hours" at'the Third London General Hospital at Wandsworth. Two hundred men, who were recently re- . turned from Germany, and are unfit for further service, were drawn iip in double fde, wearing the blue hospital uniform. Their Majesties walked up the' lines, speaking to each man. All the men bore visible evidence of terrible -wounds/ The King asked one: "How wore'you fed in Germany?" The soldier replied: "They' fed us liko cattle." The King retdrted: "Not upon hfiy, I hope?" Later Their . Majesties • visited and conversed with a number of Australians and New Zealanders from the Dardanelles. ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2557, 3 September 1915, Page 5
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