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  2. RETURNED SOLDIERS' APPEAL FOR FUNDS.

    THE IMPOSING DEMONSTRATION ON THE ADELAIDE OVAL ON SATURDAY LAST. The campaign of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Association for funds to erect a hall in memory of their fallen comrades was successfully inaugurated on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday last. The chief features of the function were a display of maypole dancing by children from the metropolitan schools, and the presentation of colors to the South Australian battalions by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry Galway). 1. The guard of returned soldiers at the presentation of colors. 2. 5, and 13. Stalls at the Paddy's Market. 3. School children maching on the oval. 4. Young South Australia. 6. The parade of the battalion colors. 7. The children who took part in the maypole dance. 8. Battalion commanders with their colors. The group comprises:—10th Battalion, Colonel Price Weir, D.S.O.; 50th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Hurcombe; 27th Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dollman; 16th Battalion, Captain R. S. Somerville, D.S.O. M.C. 43rd Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. Butler D.S.O.; 32nd Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel D. M. B. Coghill; 48th Battalion, Lieutenant D. H. Clarke; 3rd Light Horse, Major A. Dick; 9th Light Horse, Captain N. Malcolm; 11th Light Horse, Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Parsons, D.S.O.; Australian ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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