“OLD CONTEMPTIBLES.”
Received Alarch 10, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, Alay 15. Played to St. Paul’s by the Welsh Guards and Royal Artillery Bands, 1400 “Old Oontemptibles” in mufti, with war medals, held a church parade under the eyes of field-marshals, admirals, civic dignitaries, and the French and Belgian Ambassadors, after which the Lord Mayor took the salute in the march past at the Mansion House. AVounded ex-servicemen in bath chairs led the procession, divisions of which wore marked by massed colours draped in token of the Royal mourning.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 17 March 1936, Page 8
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