EX-SOLDIERS' CLUB
EMPIRE PLAN IN LONDON
LONDON, October 3. An appeal for £1,000,000 td build art Empire Victory Club was launched by the Lord May of of London today at a largely attended meeting in the Mansion House. It is proposed that the club provide, besides public rooms, bedroom accommodation for 300 ex-ser-vicemen of the British Empire and for 100 ex-servicewomen. The club will be built in the heart of London, and facilities will also be given to Allied service men and women. Field-Marshal ' Sir Bernard Montgomery, in a message to the" Lord Mayor, stated: "The servicemen have never let you down. We must see to it that when they leav*e the services we do" not let them doWn." v
The Duke of Gloucester, supporting the appeal, said: "It is'" only right that there should be some place after the war where ex-service men and women passing through London will be welcomed in the spirit of comradeship that carried us through the present emergency."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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164EX-SOLDIERS' CLUB Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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