THE ARMISTICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23182, 31 October 1938, Page 13

THE ARMISTICE

20TH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY ON NOVEMBER 11 SHORT SERVICE AT CENOTAPH Armistice Day will be observed with the customary two minutes' silence at 11 a.m. on November 11. The occasion will mark the 20th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the Great War. A service will be held as in the past at the Cenotaph, the arrangements this year being in the charge of Captain R. S. Judson, V.C. The ceremony will begin at 10.30 with band music, after which schoolchildren will bo assembled on the eastern and western sides of the Cenotaph. The King's College cadet battalion will provide a guard and also buglers to sound the "Last Post" and "Reveille."

The ceremony will be attended by the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis, and members of the City Council, representatives of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Consular Corps, ex-service-men's organisations, the Navy League, Victoria League and Army Nursing Sisters' Association.

The National Anthem will be played at 10.54, and this will be followed two minutes later by the hymn "Abide With Me." The "Last Post" will be sounded at 10.58 and the old flags lowered from the Cenotaph.

The beginning and end of the two minutes' silence will be marked by the firing of a gun. After the period of silence tho new flags will be raised on the Cenotaph and the "Keveille" played. Wreaths will be laid by members of tho official party, followed by the children, and any member of the public who may wish to do so. The hymn "Nearer My God to Thee" will then be sung. Tho flags removed from the Cenotaph will be presented to representatives of schools by tho president of tho Auckland Beturned Soldiers' Association, Mr. J. W. Kendall.' The ceremony will close with the National Anthem.

Soldiers' graves at the Waikumete, Purewa and O'Neill's Point cemeteries will be visited during tho day by members of various organisations in the city.