MEN OF THE EXETER
HONOURED IN CRUISER’S NAME CITY MARCH THROUGH BEFLAGGED STREETS. GIFT OF SHELL-TORN BATTLE ENSIGN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON. February 29. In the Guildhall at Exeter, where Nelson and Beatty were honoured ■ in the same manner, the Mayor of Exeter conferred the freedom of the city on Captain Bell of H.M.S. Exeter. Fifty thousand people gave a great welcome to eight officers and eighty men of the cruiser when they marched to the Guildhall through beflagged streets. Captain Bell presented the city with one of the Exeter’s shell-torn ensigns flown during the battle.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 6
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