WAR SERVICES RECALLED
‘CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE ARMY’ PARADE BY SURVIVORS. - • IMPRESSIVE LONDON CEREMONY WREATH AT THE CENOTAPH. (United Prtsj Association —By Electric lelegrapo Copyright.) Received 11.15 a.m to-day. LONDON, Aug. 6. Headed by the band of the Grenadier Guards playing war-time songs, 1100 survivors of the '‘contemptible little army,” assembled fioni all parts ■of the British Isles, marched t-o the Cc-notaph. where they placed a wreath m memory ot their comrades who fell in all. parts of the world. Three holders of the Victoria Cross carried the wreath. An omnibus “Old Bill” brought up the rear carrying permanently disabled soldiers.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 August 1933, Page 5
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99WAR SERVICES RECALLED Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 August 1933, Page 5
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