| Main Performers | HRH The Prince Of Wales,
Rev. P T B Clayton ('Tubby'),
Padre Owen Watkins - speakers,
Harold Williams - vocal |
| Orchestra or Band | Trumpeters of the Royal Horse Guards,
Band and Buglers of HM Welsh Guards |
| Set List | Community Singing,
Royal Entrance,
'He's a Jolly Godd Fellow',
Community Singing:
'Ilkley Moor' (Audience, Welsh Guards),
'Bobby Shafto' (Audience, Welsh Guards),
'Three Blind Mice' (Audience, Welsh Guards),
'Billy Boy' (Audience, Welsh Guards),
'Shenandoah' (Harold Williams),
'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes' (Audience, Welsh Guards),
'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' (Harold Williams),
Address (Prince of Wales)
INTERVAL
Ceremony of Lighting the Lamps of Maintenance,
Banner Procession of 600 Toc H Members,
'Non Nobis, Domine',
'The Inheritance',
'Last Post' (Buglers of the Welsh Guards),
'Reveille' (Trumpeters of the Royal Horse Guards),
Speech ('Tubby')
'The Battle Hymn',
'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven',
Prayers (Padre Owen Watkins),
'Jerusalem', Parry,
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | Event celebrating the twelth birthday of Toc H (Talbot House), a soldiers' rest and recreation centre which opened in Poperinghe on 11 December 1915.
"BROADCASTING.
PRINCE'S "TOC H" RADIO.
PLAYS FROM MANCHESTER.
BY OUR WIRELESS CORRESPONDENT.
The Prince of Wales, who broadcasts more frequently than any other member of the Royal Family, will, on Dec. 3, have his speech sent by radio from the Toc H Birthday Festival at the Albert Hall."
(The Daily Telegraph, 22 November 1927)
Guests at the event included the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Southwark, the governor of the Tower, several London borough Mayors.
"...the transformation complete, there was unfolded the spectacle of 300 rushlights, constituting a constellation of brilliance amid the encircling gloom. In the semi-obscurity one saw the Prince, a boysih figure, seated before his own lamp. Over thirty delegates, representative of new branches in this country and in Britain's possessions overseas, passed slowly before him, and, on bended knee, had their lamps lighted by him..."
(The Daily Telegraph, 5 December 1927) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1927/76) |