ARMISTICE DAY
FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE
SCENES AT ALBERT HALL
LONDON, 11th November.
To-night the King and Queen attended the Empire festival of Eemembrance at the Eoyal Albert Hall, organised by the British Legion. The Prince of Wales also was present.
An impressive pictura of Empire con' fronted the Eoyal Box.
Spotlights above the platform picked out a Union Jack floating over the banners St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick.
The flags of Australia and the other Dominions were flanked by scarletcoated Chelsea pensioners, marines in blue tunics,and with white helmets, blue-uniformed sailors, and khaki-clad British and Dominion, soldiers, nurses, "Waacs" and "Wrens."
The King and the Prince of Wales had memories of Flanders recalled by a film showing them in the trenches. As representatives of the various fighting services marched to war-time tunes the Prince leaned forward and pointed them out.
The Queen and King gazed flown upon old comrades of the battlefields who, between songs, recalled wartime memories. ,
Despite a cold wind and intermittent rain, there were crowds all the afternoon in Whitehall and round Westminster Abbey, and until a late hour files of mourners passed by the Cenotaph and the grave of the Unknown Warrior, bringing tributes of flowers.
ARMISTICE DAY
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1931, Page 7
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