KING'S RECOLLECTION
Our Own Correspondent}
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LONDON, Nov 27. When the King and Queen arrived at the London Palladium this week for the Coronation Commemoration Concert in aid of wounded returned soldiers, the Royal visitors found a guard of honour consisting of 12 St. Dunstan's men and four ex-naval men who harl fought at Jutland with the King. One of them, Engineer-Lieutenant S. W. Rich, stepped forward and gave the Queen a bunch of carnations. The J^ing at once recognised him. "Are we not old shipmates?" he asked. "Yes, sir," said Rich. ''I was in your ship, the Collingwood, from February, 1915, until April, 1916." As Prince Albert the King was at the Eattle of .Jutland in H.M.S. Cnlling,'woodL
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 14
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