CITIZEN ARMY
KING PRESENTS COLOURS IN LANCASHIRE VALUE OF TERRITORIALS STRESSED. COMMENT ON RECRUITING FIGURES. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, May 19. Their Majesties spent the third day of their tour in Lancashire in the Merseyside area. The King presented new colours to the Fifth Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment and to the Liverpool Scottish, at Everton. In a speech, his Majesty recalled an occasion, 29 years ago, when King Edward VII. reviewed in Knowsley Park, the newly formed West Lancashire Division of the Territorial Force. The King said: “My grandfather did this to demonstrate publicly his belief in a citizen army, which then had only recently come into being. Today the Territorial Army —its value proved in war —has to shoulder even wider responsibilities. That its importance to the nation is fully appreciated by our fellow countrymen is shown by the fine recruiting figures of recent months. They have been particularly good in this district’ and I am glad to see that the West Lancashire Division heads all others in England and has a strength of nearly 97 per cent of its establishment.”
The ceremony attracted great crowds and their Majesties were received with the greatest enthusiasm.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1938, Page 7
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