ARMISTICE DAY
UNOFFICIAL OBSERVANCE IN LONDON SPONTANEOUS GATHERING IN WHITEHALL. MANY WREATHS PLACED ON CENOTAPH. LONDON, November 11. In London there was no official service at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, but many people gathered in Whitehall to observe an unofficial two minutes’ silence. Numerous wreaths were laid on the Cenotaph, including those from the King and Queen, Mr Churchill, the Army Council, the fighting services and one from St. Dunstan’s in honour of the men and women blinded in the service of the Commonwealth. A Vichy message says that the Nazi commander, General Stuelpnagel, banned Armistice Day ceremonies in occupied France and warned the population that if anybody placed flowers on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier the consequences would be extremely grave.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411112.2.64
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124ARMISTICE DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in