UNUSUAL CEREMONY
STATUE OF MANNEKIN RUGBY, July 29 Lining the small back streets of one of the oldest quarters of Brussels, a guard of honour of the Welsh Guards today saluted the statue of a two-year-old boy—the city’s world-fam-ous mannekin. The statue was dressed in the full uniform of a regimental sergeant-major of the Welsh Guards. In this traditional ceremony the Welsh Guards paid their respects to Brussels, which they were the first Allied troops to enter last Sep-
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22674, 30 July 1945, Page 4
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79UNUSUAL CEREMONY Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22674, 30 July 1945, Page 4
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