AN UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT
MEMORIAL SERVICE: EPISODE. (Pre» Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 30. (Received Jan. 31, at 11.5 p.m.) Surprise was caused by the Scots pipers playing a lament and the Scots Guards sounding the Last Post, during yesterday’s Trafalgar Square service in memory of King Charles I: It recalled an incident of'two years ago, when t-ho Grenadier Guards burglers sounded the Last Post. Mr Stephen Walsh, who was then Secretary for War, said a mistake had been made in allowing the army to participate and that there would be no repetition of the incident. ’ Major Ross, the commanding officer of the Soots Guards, said : “I have no knowledge of the matter. It is clear that the application was received during the command of my predecessor, who isi now in Ireland.” —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19702, 1 February 1926, Page 8
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