“OLD CONTEMPTIBLES”
MARCH TO THE CENOTAPH. WREATHS DEPOSITED. (Received 22, 1.15 p,m.) London, Aug. 21. Fifteen thousand “Old Contemptibles,’’ members of the first expeditionary force to land in France on August 5, 1914, headed by the Irish Guards bands, Lieutenant-General Uniacke, Viscount Curzon, Sir George Duckworth, and Sir Alan Cobham. paraded on the Thames Embankment and marched in procession to the tunes of “Tipperary” and “Pack Up Your Troubles,” to the Cenotaph, upon which they laid wreaths.
One of the original motor buses used tn France was used in the procession.
A church parade was held on the Horse Guards' Parade, and after the service the procession marched to Pall Mall, where 60 disabled “Contemptibles” who were unable to march were drawn up.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 212, 22 August 1927, Page 5
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