@ by HIS MAJESTY THE KING of EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN in Hyde Park Round about 2 p.m. today the largest parade of ex-Service men and women ever held in Hyde Park will assemble to be reviewed by His Majesty the King. The largest parade until now has numbered about 20,000 ; today's muster will be four times that number.
Of the 80,000, some 56,000 will come from the British Legion, and the remainder from a number of regiflar regimental associations and independent associations, such as the Old Contemptibles, and a contingent from St. Dunstan's. The Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force, the Nursing Services, the Women's Legion drivers, and all the other Auxiliary Services will be represented, among them, women who were known twenty years ago by nicknames familiar to everyone - the Fannies and Wrafs, the Waacs and the Wrens. Nor will a single person be there who did not serve during the war, and it is conceivable that this will be the last time these veterans will ever meet together to be inspected by their Sovereign.
At about 2.25 the scene of this poignant reunion will be set by F. H. Grisewood , himself an ex-Service man who was wounded on the Somme. At about 2.30 Their Majesties will arrive on the parade ground. The service will be conducted by the Dean of Bristol, who served as a trooper in the Boer War and was Chaplain at the Royal Military College, Camberley, during the Great War, and when it is finished, the inspection will begin. Listeners will hear music played by the bands of the Scots Guards and the Welsh Guards, and with the inspection still going on, the broadcast will end.