Armistice Day: Centenary

Lord Trefgarne Excerpts
Monday 5th November 2018

(5 years, 12 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, with your Lordships’ permission, I will speak for a few seconds only. My father was born in 1894, so he was just old enough to serve in the First World War, which he did—first in the Devonshire Yeomanry, then in the South Wales Borderers, and finally in the Royal Flying Corps. All I need to say is that he was there.