ANZAC DAY CEREMONY.
LONDON ARRANGEMENTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 20. Gallipoli and Anzac Day will be commemorated on Monday at the Cenotaph. As Big Ben strikes one o’clock wreaths will be laid in the presence of General Sir lan Hamilton, who was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, supported by Lieut.-Colonel HM. Alexander, will lay wreaths on behalf of the British Army, Indian Army and Australian Imperial Forces. Other wreaths will be laid by General le Long (French military attache) and Captain de Vasseau Dutour (French naval attache) on behalf of the French Ariny and Navy, and the Corps Expeditionne de Orient, and General Sir Beauvoir de Lisle on behalf of the Twenty-ninth Division, which participated in the Gallipoli'campaign. Sir lan Hamilton, representing the British Empire Service League, will lay a wreath on behalf of all exservicemen throughout the Empire. The High Commissioner for New Zealander (Mr W. J. Jordan) will lay a wreath on behalf of the New Zealand Other wreaths will he laid on behalf pf the Royal Navy, the Royal Naval Division, the Merchant Navy and the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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188ANZAC DAY CEREMONY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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