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FORM OF SERVICE . DEPOSITING OF WREATH ON CAVALRY MEMORIAL , Stanhope Gate , Hyde Park , on Sunday , April 18th , 1926 , by Combined Cavalry " Old Comrades . " 10.30 a.m. - Assembly at Eastern End of Serpentine Road ( between Bandstand and Achilles Statue ) . 10.45 a.m. - March to Cavalry Memorial headed by . Band of 12th Royal Lancers ( Prince of Wales's ) . 11.0 a.m. - SHORT ADDRESS by The Reverend OWEN S. WATKINS , C.M.G. , C.B.E. , Honorary Chaplain to the King , Deputy Chaplain - General to the Forces . 2 . OLD PRAYER BY THE DEPUTY CHAPLAIN - GENERAL TO THE FORCES . DEPOSITING OF WREATH . " LAST POST " TRUMPETERS OF THE 12TH ROYAL LANCERS . " O GOD , OUR 1. O God , our help in ages past , Our hope for years to come , Our shelter from the stormy blast , And our eternal home . Beneath the shadow of Thy Throne , Thy Saints have dwelt secure ; Sufficient is Thine Arm alone , And our defence is sure . 3. Before the hills in order stood , Or earth received her frame , From everlasting Thou art God To endless years the Same . BY HYMN HELP IN AGES PAST . " 4. A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone , Short as the watch that ends the night , Before the rising sun . 5. Time , like an ever rolling stream , Bears all its sons away ; They fly forgotten , as a dream Dies at the opening day . 6. O God , our help in ages past , Our hope for years to come , Be Thou our guard while troubles last , And our eternal home . REVEILLÉ BY TRUMPETERS OF THE 12TH ROYAL LANCERS . AMEN . BLESSING BY THE DEPUTY CHAPLAIN - GENERAL TO THE FORCES . GOD SAVE THE KING . The Old Comrades of the cavalry regi ments yesterday paid tribute at a memo rial service at the Cavalry Memorial , Stanhope Gate , Hyde Park , W. , to their fellows who were killed in the war . Several hundreds of old cavalrymen , including numbers of Chelsea pen sioners , assembled at the eastern end of the Serpentine - road and , led by Lieut. General Sir Edward Bethune , marched to the memorial , headed by the band of the 12th ( Prince of Wales's ) Royal Lan cers . Here they were joined by thousands of people in a simple and impressive ser vice round the memorial , the central feature of which is a bronze figure of St. George mounted on horseback , having a sword uplifted . Under the horse is the dead body of the dragon . After the Rev. Owen S. Watkins , Deputy Chaplain - General to the Forces , had paid tribute to the services of the cavalry during the war , a large wreath was laid at the foot of the memorial on behalf of the combined Cavalry Old Com rades ' Association , and the " Last Post " was sounded by trumpeters of the 12th Royal Lancers . The hymn O God , our help in ages past , " was followed by the " Réveillé . " Numbers of floral tributes were laid alongside the large wreath , among them a wreath from the 2nd King Edward's Horse , and bunches of daffodils placed by women in black . $ 367 SIZENTIBE CAVALRY MEMORIAL CEREMONY . - Twenty - eight cavalry regiments were represented at the Cavalry Memorial at Hyde Park when the Combined Cavalry " Old Comrades " Association laid this wreath on the memorial . A party of Chelsea pensioners ( in background ) attended . EMPIRE 65 OLD COMRADES OF THE CAVALRY REGIMENTS yesterday paid tribute to the fallen at the Cavalry Memorial , Stanhope Gate , Hyde Park . The service in progress and ( on right ) Lt. - Gen . Sir Edward Bethune with the wreath . The Rev. Harold Gibbs ( near memorial ) , who resigned his chaplaincy to take a combatant commission during the war and was blinded while serving in the Lancers , at the ceremony yesterday at the Cavalry Memorial , where the Combined Cavalry Old Comrades laid a wreath .- ( Daily Mirror . ) |
