EXAMPLE OF LOYALTY.
BARED HEADS IN STORM.
STRIKING TATTOO SCENES.
LONDON. June 19. Locomotives festooned like giant clotheshorses, with women's lingerie, and groups of drenched men surrounding improvised bonfires on the station platforms, were among the extraordinary scenes which followed the close of the Aldershot torchlight tattoo.
The King and Queen, who, with 70,000 of their subjects, watched through an unexpected torrential downpour, were so impressed by the troops' unflinching behaviour in the exposed arena that they have sent a special message of appreciation to the men.
The most striking example of the crowds' stoicism came in the finale, when the deluge, beating down tents and trees, drowned the roll of 200 drums, but every man in the vast drenched multitude, in the glare of the searchlights, bared his head to the storm to sing " God Save the King."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 11
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