Remembrance Day In London
LONDON', Nov. 5 (Bee. 6 pm). —Their Majesties the King and Queen and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, all wearing poppy emblems, joined 600(1 exservicemen and women of all ranks at the Albert Hall tonight at the British Legion’s annual Festival of Remembrance to the dead of two wars.
The Legion’s 210 blue and gold banners, representing 5000 branches, were slowly paraded. The men of the three fighting services were cheered, as were the scarlet-coated Chelsea Pensioners and Merchant Navy men. The president of the British Legion, blind Sir lan Fraser, received Their Majesties.—Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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