MEMORIAL SERVICE.
AT SCENE OF DISASTER. MEN OF THE THETIS. Received June 8, 5.5 a.in. LONDON, June 7. Seventy relatives of the naval officials ami technicians who were lost in the Thetis went out to the scene of the disaster to-day on the minesweeper Hebe, which was piled high with flowers, accompanied by the minesweeper Seagull, also flower-laden, to participate in the memorial service. The service was conducted by a naval chaplain in the presence of the destroyers Codrington and Basilisk and tiio submarine Cachalot. The Last Post and Reveille and a salute of guns were features of the service. Similar services were held at Portsmouth. Chatham, Devonport. Barrow, and Birkenhead, at some of which a number of relatives preferred to attend rather than face such a poignant ordeal on the sea. Two thousand of Alessrs Cammed Laird’s eraplovees attended the service at Birkenhead.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 9
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144MEMORIAL SERVICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 9
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