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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 15, 2017 14:27:47 GMT
RETURN OF LANCE-CORPORAL HARDACRE - ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. Lance-Corporal F. Hardacre, 2nd Royal Lancaster Regiment, arrived at Carnforth by the eight p.m. train on Tuesday, and had a very hearty reception. The brass band and a crowd of people assembled on the station platform, and as the train approached, the band began to play "Soldiers of the Queen." When the young soldier alighted from the railway carriage, enthusiastic cheers were raised, which he acknowledged. He was immediately escorted to a wagonette, drawn by three horses, provided gratuitously by Mr. Thompson, of the Queen's Hotel, whose eldest son is a trooper in Bethune's Mounted Infantry, and he himself is a typical Imperialist. Mr. J. Thompson, junr., drove, and Mr. T. Thompson mounted the leading horses as postillion. Corporal Hardacre was conveyed from the station to the house of his widowed mother in Market-street, an extraordinarily large number of persons witnessing the procession, which was headed by the band, a number of flags being carried, and others were displayed at various places on the route.
(Lancaster Observer, 22 June 1900)
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