British Legion's Festival Of Remembrance
Received Sunday 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 6. The King and Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, all wearing poppy emblems, joined 6000 ex-service men and women of all ranks in the A1 bert Hall tonight at the British Leg ion's annual Festival of Remembrance to the dead to two wars. The Legion's 210 blue and gold banners representing 5Q00 branches were slowly paraded. The men of the three fighting services were cheered as were the scarlet-coated Chelsea pensioners and the merchant navy men. The president of the British Legion, blind Sir Ian Fraser, received their Majestiea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 3
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