The Queen Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 32, 22 February 1929, Page 2

The Queen Broadcasts

ER Majesty the Queen recently veiled her first war memorial, and for the first time her voice was heard on the wireless. The memorial is that which has been erected on Tower Hill, London, in honour of those members of the merchant navy and fishing fleets who lost their lives during the war and whose only grave is the sea. The Queen’s devotion to duty was shown by her decision to fulfil this engagement in the midst of her anxiety over the King. Dense crowds congregated at the memorial and along the route from Buckingham Palace to express thejr appreciation of her acti, and to join with her in paying tribute to those whose heroism was equal to that displayed by the soldiers on, the battlefield. r. Her Majesty’s tribute ta the man of the merchant navy and fishing fleets, whose master is the Prince of Wales, was heard not only by the relatives and friends assembled at the memorial, but by thousands of men, women, | and children seated in their wind-. swept cottages along the coasts of England. Some of those whose names were engraved on the stone belonged to these fishing folk, and though they could not see their Queen they heard her voice.