Graf Spee Conquerors Honoured (1940)

Full title reads: “Graf Spee Conquerors Honoured“. London. VS of the crews of HMS Ajax and Exeter marching past the House of Parliament up Whitehall and onto Horse Guards Parade, the streets are lined with dense crowds and police patrol the crowds wearing their wartime helmets and uniforms. VS of King George VI, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain together with the Cabinet saluting, with the seamen on Horseguards Parade as a Marines band plays the Anthem. LS Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) at a window of the Admiralty. GV King inspecting the crew GV The Graf Spee burning after being scuttled off Montevideo. MS King holding an investiture on Horseguards with Churchill and Chamberlain standing beside him, he invests men from the ships and the widow of one man that died. GV of the crew marching past the King who with Churchill and Chamberlain takes the salute from a platform. GV of the men marching across Trafalgar Square which is packed with people. MS King, Queen and Churchill t
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