Mourners in their tens of thousands are silently and reverently paying their tribute of respect, esteem and love for their dead monarch as they file in unending streams through Westminster Hall, where the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 208 wordsEloquent tributes to the memory of the late King George were paid at a vast service, organised by the Victorian branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, held on the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday afternoon. Of simple and quiet dignity, as befitted a religious gathering ...
Article : 164 wordsSharing in the conduct of the service were a number of military chaplains, and it was a somewhat less formal way of referring to the Archbishop which ...
Article : 353 wordsIt has been decided that the two minutes silence which will be observed throughout the United Kingdom on Tuesday next, the day of the funeral of ...
Article : 670 wordsToday many tens of thousands more of his people passed silently in grief and reverence past the body of King George lying in state in Westminster ...
Article : 758 wordsRev. F. W. Norwood, a former Australian, preaching at the City Temple, said:-- "The British people, though unskilled ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Governor, as King Edward's representative, the Premier and his fellow State Ministers of the Crown; the President of the Legislative Council, Speaker ...
Article : 580 wordsThe Admiralty is arranging for a destroyer escort to meet all Royalties and heads of State coming to England to attend the funeral. Arrangements have ...
Article : 272 wordsLarge congregations assembled in city and suburban churches yesterday when special memorial services were held. The services were marked by intense devotion, and high tributes to the sterling Christian character of ...
Article : 841 wordsA special memorial service was held yesterday morning at Scots Church, Collins street, which was attended by the Governor and Lady Huntingfield. Sir W. ...
Article : 1,092 wordsWith King Edward's permission Sir John Simon has disclosed another poignant incident at King George's last Privy Council meeting. ...
Article : 216 wordsWhile Tuesday is not to be observed as a holiday places of amusement-- according to the text of a message sent by the Prime Minister to the Premiers-- ...
Article : 163 wordsFollowing a precedent established at the funeral of Queen Victoria, all trains on the Victorian railway system will stop for two minutes at noon tomorrow. ...
Article : 164 wordsThere was a congregation of 3000 people at a commemorative solemn High Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning. Among those present were ...
Article : 699 words"The Last Post" sounded by buglers of the Returned Soldiers Band at the Memorial Service at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsIn response to a message of sympathy from the council and members of the Australian Red Cross Society, the following has been received from the ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Dunstan also stated last night that wherever memorial services are being held in Victoria, Government offices would (subject to the maintenance of ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 27 Jan 1936, Page 9
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