FORGOTTEN BRAVERY
PLIGHT OF V.C’S ROUSES * BRITISH PUBLIC A DISGRACE REVEALED (United Service) LONDON, Thursday. The public is widely supporting the British Legion’s efforts to enable holders of the Victoria -Cross to attend in comfort the Prince of Wales’.* dinner, but there are also protests that this should not be necessary. The "Daily News” says it is a disgrace that men who won the highest bestowable award for gallantry should be allowed to sink into the gutter, when by a little generosity and imagination they could he kept from it. The Government ought to secure photographs and hang them, in a special room in the Imperial War Museum, to enable the younger generation to look on the faces of the Empire’s bravest men. It would be the world’s finest portrait gallery. ONTARIO’S OFFER TO PAY COST OF JOURNEY TO LONDON DINNER
Australian and N.Z. Press Association ( United Service)
Reed. 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Thurs. A message from Newmarket, Ontario, says that the Premier of that province, Mr. G. Howard Ferguson, announced that Ontario will pay the cost of the journey to every Victoria Cross winner from Ontario who desires to attend the Prince of Wales’s dinner in London in November.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9
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