You Have Got to See This

The internet is an amazing place! browsing for a film to put up on the blog, I found the Movitone website. You can register for free and look at Movitone newsreels. There is a film of the opening of the Memorial Hall by the Duke and Duchess of York. The film is one of a small number recording the Duke speaking in public before he became King which, since the release of The King's Speech, are being much viewed by those interested in the real life struggle King George VI had with speaking in public.

It is Story No 102. If you search for it you have to misspell Haileybury as Haileyburgh.

The Duke says:

"Dedicated as it will be to the memory of those who fell, may the [indistinct words maybe: fair few] who come after them follow the example of fellowship and duty which they kept and may Haileybury and her sons prosper through the years to come."

You can see the grandsatnd erected around the south of the Memorial Quad, the buglers on the roof of Hall, the Archbishop of Canterbury sitting next to the Duke as he speaks and the Master, wearing his medal, preparing to make his speech.