The Archive · 1938

Preparation in Amiens

Amiens, July 21.

Sir Earle Page, Australian Vice-arrived here yesterday. He will attend the ceremony at Villers-Bretonneux tomorrow when King George will unveil the memorial to the Australian soldiers who fell during the Great War.

He will be received by the Archbishop of the Amiens Cathedral and by the municipal authorities.

Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, the British Secretary of War, and General Maurice Gamelin, Chief of the French General Staff, will meet here to morrow morning before the ceremony.

The Grenadier Guards band will arrive here this morning and will give a public concert after having marched through the streets of Amiens. which are bedecked with British, French and Australian flags—Hav

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