THE KING REVIEWS EX-SERVICEMEN
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Parade of 80,000 At Hyde Park "CALAMITY OF WAR"
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(Receivea 28, 1.0 p.m.; LONDON, June 27. In the greatest parade England has ever seen, 80,000 ex-servicemen and women gathered at Hyde Park to be reviewed by the King, whom the majQiity had never seen. Rank knew no place, oificers being lined up with the men. Sir Ian Fraser led 200 blinded veterans. Nearly two thousand men came froiu the Free State and XJlster in one party, demonstratiug the bond of cojnrade' ship. Their Majestieg, after the parade, visited an enclosure where 1000 disabled soldiers were accommodated in ehairs. The march-past lasted hours. Special cheers were given for General Gough, leading the Fifth Army troops. Ex-Private Loversidge, of thn Cyclists Battalion carried the New Zealand standard before General Godley, Colonel N. W. B. Thomas, Colonel N. FFalla. Colonel D. B. Blair and four exqursing si'sters accompanied the New Zealanders, The King, addressing the parade, sap'dr "I am happy as patron to be assoeiated with the work of the great bretherhood of ex-servicemen which, as one of the brotherhood myself, I have always watehed with interest and svmpathy. I feel we can render no greater service to the human Tace than by conyincing the world of the calamitv that war becomes for- both victors and vanquished alike. It is for "all of u's to see that the wartime spirit of unselfishness and sympathy is not allowed to fade."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 138, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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