KING & QUEEN
GIVEN LOYAL WELCOME IN MIDLANDS. CEREMONIAL PRESENTATION BY INDIAN TROOPS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 8. The King and Queen today visited a factory at Derby. Their Majesties were making a tour of the Midlands and spent an hour at the factory, during which time they saw the work in every stage of production. Large crowds cheered their Majesties as they drove through the town to the factory. The King had a long talk with the chairman of the Shop Stewards’ Association. who. when the King asked if they had any trouble at all, said that they had ony had small difficulties to overcome.
Previously their Majesties had inspected a earn)) of Indian soldiers in south Derbyshire. Here the traditional presentation of gold and silver to the King-Emperor was made by two Indian soldiers. The gifts were carried on pieces of white cloth. The King, as a token of acceptance, touched them with his fingers, and afterward remitted them. The troops were of the Royal Indian A.S.C. They served in France and were evacuated from Dunkirk.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 5
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