STIRRING SCENE AT COWES.
BAND’S TRIBUTE TO KINO. The King and Queen attended divine service in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Cowes on a recent morning. The lessons were read by Vice-admiral Sir Henry Buller, commanding the royal yachts. There was a striking incident about noon. A Salvation Army band was heading a procession of members of the British Legion alongside the quayside. Immediately they came opposite the Victoria and Albert they baited and the men stood at attention while the band played the National Anthem, the strains of which floated across the water to the yachts. In an instant the moving throng on the front was stilled, and 1000 men wearing yachting caps stood bareheaded. Yachtsmen in the small craft in the Solent joined in the tribute, and half a dozen speed boats, taking visitors round the yachts shut off their engines until the music had ceased. The King and Queen came on the deck of the Victoria and Albert, and his Majesty acknowledged the salutation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 3
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169STIRRING SCENE AT COWES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 3
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