SURPRISE OF GAULLE
REPLICA OF FRENCH MILITARY BAND When General de Gaulle arrives back in London the Free trench will have a surprise for him—a military band all playing the special instru-j incuts of France. j
The instruments are a present from a well known restaurateur, AJ. Herboclcau of L'Ecu dc France. A*l. Herbodeau asked a London musical instrument maker if lie could supply the precise equipment for a
military band of the French Army. He was at once shown pictures of every instrument required: and they liad been going J'rom London to France for the last hundred years. The making of them was begun when Victoria came to the throne by one, Gustav Besson, who set up in London with one man and a bo3 r . To-day the man and boy are: tw 7 o hundred workers, some of them of the fourth generation.
At the moment tliey are copying for the trumpets the scarlet banner of the 71st Regiment of Artillery, brought to England from Dunkirk.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 170, 20 October 1941, Page 3
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168SURPRISE OF GAULLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 170, 20 October 1941, Page 3
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