REMEMBRANCE DAY IN BRITAIN
Received Sunday Midnight. LONDON, Nov. 6. Throughout the British Isles today in small churches and great cathedrals, at simple memorials on village greens and in the squares of towns and cities, thousands will attend services iinking them with the great Remombrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph, London. Their Majesties, Queen, Mary, Prin cess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duches* oi Kent will attend the ceremony which will be conducted by the Bishop of London. Navy, Army and R.A.F. detach ments ,wiM flank the CenOta^H and- at 11 a.m; • a.jgun fired - froiri tHe; ,A6|trby Horse ^ayade grdiiiids Sviiijfiark the boginfiing ofithe silence. The King, Princess Elizabeth and tlu Duke of Gloucester will place wreaths ou the Cenotaph, and later His Majesty will attend a special service at West minster Abbey where wreaths will be laid on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 3
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149REMEMBRANCE DAY IN BRITAIN Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 3
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