“OLD CONTEMPTIBLES”
CHURCH PARADE HELD LONDON, March 15. flayed to St. Paul’s by the Welsh Guards and the Royal Artillery Band, 1400 “Old Contemptiblcs” in mufti, with war medals, held a church parade under the eyes of (icld-marshals, admirals, civic dignitaries and the French and Belgian Ambassadors, after which the Lord Mayor took the salute in the march past at the Mansion House. Wounded ex-servicemen in bath chairs led the procession, the divisions of which were marked by massed colours draped in token of royal mourning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 9
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