"THE SILENT NAVY"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 93, 21 April 1939, Page 8

"THE SILENT NAVY"

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l think it is about time that exnaval men asserted their claims, at least in regard to. recognition when Anzac Day comes round each year. For instance, although we are numerically only a few hundred 'strong in this city, I have yet to learn that the Senior Service has ever been recognised by the R.S.A., and I would bring before your notice the fact that, although at Home and in every other part of the British Empire the Navy has always had pride of place at the head of any ceremonial parade, the exnaval men of this city are relegated to second place on Anzac Day. With all due respect to our comrades who served in South Africa, I trust the authorities concerned will in future give the men who served under the White Ensign their rightful place at lany gathering of ex-service men.—l I am, etc.,

EX-R.N. 1910-1918,

The president of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association states that the Senior Service has always been placed first in parades held by the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association, but the South African War veterans lead such parades because the South African War Veterans' Association is an older association than the R.S.A., to which the Royal Navy men' belong.