HISTORICAL PAGEANT
ROYAL MILITARY TOURNAMENT.
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 23
The Royal Military Tournament in which the Navy, Army and Air Forces combine annually to give at Olympia a display which is one of the most pleasant and picturesque events of the London season, will be opened by the King and Queen next Thursday. This year there will be 54 officers and 1600 other ranks, together with 300 horses and numerous guns, tanks, and other vehicles used in the performance, and an historical pageant in the uniforms of the seventeenth century .will be provided by the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. Last year £27,000 was raised by the tournament which lasts a fortnight, and in all, these annual displays have raised £250,000 for service charities.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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127HISTORICAL PAGEANT Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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