ON CORONATION DAY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 419, 28 April 1937, Page 5

ON CORONATION DAY

ORDER OF PROCESSION ROUTE TO THE ABBEY Dominion And Colonial Troops Prominent Press Association —ijopyrrght. Received April 28, 1.30 p.m. London, April 27. Their Majesties will leave Buckingham Palace on Coronation Day at 10.30 o’clock. The Royal coach is expected to leave Westminster Abbey at 2.15 o’clock. Dominion troops will head the procession on the return to the palace, which will be reached at 3.50. Preceding their Majesties to the Abbey will be the Processions of the Lord Mayor and Speaker of the House of Commons, certain members of the Royal Family, and representatives of Foreign Powers, after which there will be eleven carriages of Prime Ministers in this order:—

Mr Stanley Baldwin, escorted by mounted police, Mr MacKenzie King, escorted by Canadian Mounted Police, Mr J. A. Lyons, Mr M. J. Savage, and General Hertzog, who will be escorted by their own mounted troops. Thereafter there will be representatives of India, Burma, Southern Rhodesia, Zanzibar, and Trans-Jordania. Next will come the carriage Procession of the Royal Family, and, finally, the Roy a' coach, headed by detachments of armed forces, commanding members of the Air and Army Council, the Admiralty Escort, officers from Dominion and Colonial contingents, the Yeomen of the Guard, and the Honorary aides-de-camp. The State coach will be drawn by the eight Windsor greys, escorted by Earl Cavan, and the Duke of Beaufort, after which will be the Royal Standard, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, the King’s Entourage, Officers of the Household, and the third and fourth Divisions of the Sovereign’s Escort.

A Royal Salute will be fired in St. James’s Park and at the Tower of London to announce the actual moment of Coronation.