ANZAC DAY IN ENGLAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19474, 26 April 1933, Page 8

ANZAC DAY IN ENGLAND

TRIBUTES TO GALLANT DEAD DISTINGUISHED SOLDIERS PARTICIPATE Jnlied Press Association - Bs* .Electric Teleirraoh -CaoyrlglitT (Received April 25. 7.0 pjDi > LONDON. Ap til 24. Mr Stanley Bruce (Australian Minister in London* read the lessoax. and the Rev. G. R. Barnett, formerly* of Hamilton. New Zealand, preachect at the Anzac Day service at St. Clement Daner. at which Miss Eunice Meredith of New Zealand, was the soloist. aiW Mr Arthur Mason, of Sydney, presided at the piano. The Congregation included General Sir William Bird wood, and General Sir lan Hamilton and the Agents-gen-eral of Australia. Mr Bruce placed a wreath on the shrine of remembrance in the church, on behalf of the Commonwealth, and Mr Hal Williams, on behalf of New Zealand, owing to Sir Thomas Wilford’s absence at Geneva. Afterwards in the presence of the representatives of the British and French army and navy. Sir lan Hamilton placed a wreath on the Cenotaph, on behalf of the Empire Service League. Mr Bruce, on behalf of the Commonwealth, General Sir Cecil Romcr (Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command) on behalf of the War Office, Colonel E. F. Lascelles on cehalf of New Zealand, and Mrs Hal Williams on behalf of the Auckland branch of the Mothers’ Union. The day was also commemorated at Woking, Harefield and Walton-on-Thames, where wreaths were placed on the graves of Australians and New Zealanders.