VICTORY SONG
COMPOSED SPECIALLY FOR OCCASION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, February 23. In the welcome to the Ajax and Exeter men the procession of sailors was headed by the Royal Marines Divisional Band from Chatham and was greeted at the entrance to the Guildhall by the string band of the Royal Marines, playing “Heroes of the RivetPlate,” a new victory song specially composed for the occasion. The men looked fit and cheerful, wearing overcoats with gas respirators slung across their shoulders. This is the first parade permitted in London since the outbreak of war. A GALLANT CORPORAL. The King has approved the award of the medal of the military division of the Order of the British Empire to Corporal Bernard J. Brooks, a fitter of the R.A.F. who was lent for duty with the Fleet Air Arm and was serving on the Ajax in the Battle of River Plate. Corporal Brooks was reported by the commanding officer of the Ajax to have carried out most efficiently the work of catapulting the ship’s aircraft during the action, as having shown initiative and having done valuable work with the upper deck repair party.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1940, Page 5
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