Incidental Music
| + 38 reported with chagrin by a high percentage of those citizens who attend Buckingham Palace investitures to receive their decorations at the hand of the King that they suffer from mental blackouts during the ceremonies, and can remember little of the great occasion to hand on later to their families and friends, A Grenadier Guards’ string band plays through the proceedings. An R.A.F. group captain was amazed to hear that he received his C.B.E. to the strain of "Tea for Two"; a Judge was knighted to Boccherini’s Minuet; five fighter pilots received their D.F.C.’s to "White Horse Inn"; and a destroyer commander received a third and fourth bar to his D.S.O. to the accompaniment of "I Want to Be Happy."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 9
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122Incidental Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 9
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