“EMPIRE VICTORY CLUB”
Appeal For £1,000,000 <7.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. An appeal for £1,000.000 to build an “Empire Victory Club” was launched at a largely attended meeting at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor of London (Sir Frank Newson-Smith) to-day. . It is proposed that the club should provide, besides public rooms, bedroom accommodation for 300 servicemen of the British Empire, and 100 for exservicewomen. The club will be built in the heart of London, and facilities will also be given to Allied s .vicemen and women. Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, in a message to the Lord Mayor, stated: “Servicemen have never let you down. We must see to it that when they leave the services we do not let them down." His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, supporting the appeal, said: "It is only right tnat there should be some place after the war where exservicemen and women passing through London will be welcomed in the spirit of comradeship that has carried us through the present emergency.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23014, 4 October 1944, Page 5
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