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Topical Budget 742-1: Remembrance Day (1925)
 

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Title: "On the stroke of eleven the whole Empire was hushed into the Seventh Great Silence." Big Ben. "At the Mansion House". Crowds stand in respectful silence. "The King at the Cenotaph". Church procession files towards Cenotaph. While the Queen and the rest of the Royal party look on from a nearby balcony, the King, in military uniform, lays a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph. Senior officers follow suit. All remove their caps and bow their heads. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Austen Chamberlain and other dignitaries also pay their respects. The King and his party replace their caps. Buglers take up their instruments. "Pilgrims of Remembrance": war widows approach the Cenotaph to lay their own wreaths. "Their name liveth for evermore." Troops at the front during the war.