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On This Day

23

Jun
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 23 June 1917

On 23, Jun 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Saturday 23 June 1917

BOY SCOUTS’ TRIBUTE

Between 400 and 500 Boy Scouts attended the first part of the funeral for their late Chief Commissioner, Mr. Ernest Cope Fowke, the well-known Birmingham solicitor.

Starting from Ingleside, Wellington-road, Edgbaston, at noon the procession headed by the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes Band, proceeded by road to Atherstone, where the interment took place.