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Armistice Day (Cenotaph Service).

Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 5 October 1931.

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Photo of Sir Edward Campbell Sir Edward Campbell , Bromley

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will secure that preference be given to the music of British composers when arranging the Armistice Day Cenotaph service?

Photo of Hon. Oliver Stanley Hon. Oliver Stanley , Westmorland

It is proposed that the music at the Cenotaph service shall be the same as that played last year when, with the exception of Chopin's Funeral March, it was entirely British.

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