KING IN NORTH AFRICA
W ■ Visit To Allied Forces first trip overseas SINCE 1939 ' (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rt, ill P-m.) LONDON, June IG. His Majesty the King is now in North Africa. This is made known in an official announcement from Buckingham Palace, which says:— “The King, who is accompanied by the Secretaries of State for War and Air, is visiting the British Ist and Bth Armies, the Royal Navy, and the Royal Air Force in North Africa. “His Majesty also welcomes this opportunity of seeing the United States army and air forces and the French Arm?, with whom his own forces have been so closely associated in the recent memorable victory, and of investing General Eisenhower, the Allied Commander-in-Chief in North Africa, with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.” A correspondent says that His Majesty has visited forces in the field and has already invested General Eisenhower. The latest overseas visit made by the King was in December, 1939, when he went to France to visit the British Expeditionary Force.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23976, 17 June 1943, Page 5
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