LEST WE FORGET
■uAIMED SOLDIERS AS ROYAL GUESTS.
LONDON, November 28. Nearly 8300 soldiers, hopelessly broken in a war that is now four years past, will spend yet another Christmas in London hospitals. To these “boys in blue” hospital has become a home, and their uniform an 'habitual dress. More than 2000 of these are still ’*cot” cases—men so shattered that they may never rise from their beds. In the whole country there are believed to he about 33,000 men who are permanent patients. Public gratitude, it is said, is shortlived, but the '“Not Forgotten” Association aims to keep that gratitude alive, and this year again its members, under the keen direction of Miss Marta Cunningham, are arranging to provide Christmas cheer for these men in London. A day or two before Christmas 500 or 600 will be the guests of the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace, where, as was the case last year, a tea and entertainment will be provided in the Riding School.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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166LEST WE FORGET New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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