ARMISTICE DAY
THE KING’S REQUEST TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE The Governor-General has receives the following cablegram from the Colonial Secretary r— Please inform your Ministers that His Majesty the King has expressed wish that on Armistice Day, November 11, there should .be complete suspension of all normal business throughout British Empire during two minutes’ silence commencing at 11 a.m. " It is proposed in this country there should be a short military ceremony at the cenotaph, in which representative detachments . of tile Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, and ex-service men’s associations should take part. , Representatives of His Majesty and Prime Minister will lay > just before eleven. High Commissioners are being invited to he present, and lay wreaths on behalf of their respective Domin- . ions. After two minutes’ silence, commencing at 'eleven a.m., the hymn "O God Our Help In Ages Past" will be sung, accompanied by massed bands. Upon its conclusion "Reveille" will be sounded by buglers, and the ceremony will be completed.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 7
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162ARMISTICE DAY Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 30, 29 October 1921, Page 7
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