DEFENCE OF BRITAIN
♦- MOCK BATTLE WATCHED BY THEIR MAJESTIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. April 3. During a tour of the Southern Command their Majesties stood on a hillside in Southern England while shells screamed over their heads and burst on a target 1000 yards in front of them. Their Majesties were at the forward observation post of one of the artillery ranges of the Southern Command., and stood v/ith a group of officers. Their Majesties were watching a mock battle in which a battery of 25-pounders was attempting to destroy 500 parachute troops who were supposed to have landed in the neighbourhood. Watching the anti-tank battery at work, their Majesties walked through a morass of mud to get a closer view of the guns firing tracer bullets to score hit after hit on a dummy target.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 5
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136DEFENCE OF BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1941, Page 5
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