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Title: Visit of King Carol of Roumania to Aldershot Command, 1938 [Go to resource]
Description: King Carol had been driven over from the RAF station at Odiham. He was greeted by Lieut-Gen Sir John Dill, the GOC in charge. After inspecting the guard of honour he was driven over to the Long Valley to watch a display of mechanized units, including a demonstration by a Carrier Platoon of the 1st Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. He then took the salute at a drive past of the 12th Royal Lancers in their armoured cars, the tractor-drawn 13th Anti-Tank and 4th Medium Regiments, R.A., the 2nd and 4th Battalions of the Royal Tank Corps, the 6th Anti-Aircraft Regiment R.A. and the Mobile Searchlights of the 1st A.A. Battalion R.E. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Subjects: King Carol of Roumania
royal visit
guard of honour
Grenadier Guards
Long ValleyTemporal: start=1938-11-17; end=1938-11-17; Source: Sense of place SE Creator: donated by Col. Cole Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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