GUARDS PARADE
PRESENTATION OF COLOURS. (British Off-rial Wireless.) RUGBY, July 16. The King presented new colours to ;« six battalions of the Guards in Hyde Park this morning. The brilliant ceremony was watched by Queen Mary. Immense crowds gathered in the Park and along the route. > In an address to the Troops, the King said: “Humanity criesi out for peace and assurance of peace, and you will find in peace opportunities of duty and service as noble as - any that '-* bygone battlefields can show. Only a few of us on parade this -morning have known the awful weight and horrors of war. I hope ivith all my heart, and indeed pray that our age may never again be called’ upon to face such stern and terrible' days. I am proud to give you the new colours, but it was His late Majesty’s wish to give them himself. Therefore my heart is full of reverent remembrance of his great: example.” After, the King rode' at the head of the troops as far as Buckingham Palace, where he took the salute as the battalions marched last. V
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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