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Topical Budget 230-1: King's Investiture (1916)
 

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[Flash title ] "KING'S INVESTITURE. Recipients of New Year's Honours and those decorated for bravery by the King leaving Buckingham Palace. Lce-Corpl. L. Keyzor, 1st Australians who received the V.C. for bravery at Lone Pine in Gallipoli". Four uniformed officers walking through the gates at Buckingham Palace; three other uniformed officers leaving the Palace; one officer embraces a woman outside the gates and they go off together. Those leaving the Investiture are watched by people standing outside the gates. Three nurses leave; the gates; then several policemen. Medium close up (head and shoulders) of Lance-Corporal Keyzor, who salutes.Mile End from an 'aeroplane'.