BRITISH LEGION
(N.Z.P.A.—REUTER CABLE) (Rec. 6.30). LONDON, Nov. 6. The King and Queen, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, all wearing poppy emblems, joined six thousand' ex-servicemed and women of all ranks at the Albert Hall tonight at the British Legion’s annual festival of remembrance of the dead of two wars. The Legion’s 208 blue and gold banners, representing five thousand branches, were slowly paraded. Men of the three fighting services were cheered, as were scarletcoated Chelsea pensioners and Merchant Navy men. The president of the British Legion of the Blind, Sir lan Fraser, received Their Majesties.
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Grey River Argus, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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