South African Veterans' Jubilee

Chronicle (Levin), 30 June 1949, Page 5

South African Veterans' Jubilee

Received Wrednesday 7 p.m. LONDON, June 29. Mr Churchill and possibly Field-klar-rshall Bmuts will atteud the jubilee conference of the South African War .Yeterans ' Association which will openon Jaly l;") with a reunion at the Duke ! of York's lieadqua'rters, Chelsea. Seventv delegsites f ko 111 all pa-rts of the Bri t'ish Isles and Commonwealth will atteiul the conference and more than 10U9 vetetans have signified their intentiou of taking part in a marcli past and ehureh parade at St, Paul's Cathedral on ' Sunday July 17. The parade will be upder tlie comnland. of Field-JMarshali Earl "Wavell, -will assemble at Mansion ilou'se where the first salute will be taken by the Lord Alayor of London, Sir George Aylwen — himself a South African veteran. " It will then mareh . through. the bornbed section of the eity to St. Paul's where the second salute ; vtill be taken by Field-Marshall, tlie ' Eafl of Athlone'. The conference, which will considei pensions aiul a nuinber of other matters eoncerning the men who served in the South African War, will oeeupy tu. whole of July 16. The overseas delegations, including a eontingent expected from New Zea •land, will be entertaified by a number of service organisat'ions -during their visit to Britain. The annual report of the -association, to be presented at. the conference, re cords that branches of the organisation have fioyv been formed in South Afriea ■a'mong men who fought i on tlie Boer side. , Among aeknowlegements of a large number of gifts received during the year, the report mentions particularly a;'gift of half & ton of dripping froie the- Christchurch (New Zealand; braneh. The dripping was distributeJ on a "proportional basis to all branches in the TTnited Kingdom.