DLA096-0155  Transcription

The Times, 3 [January 1925]

PRESENTATION TO LORD AND LADY WILLINGDON.

TRIBUTE FROM MESOPOTAMIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

Since returning to this country last May after 11 years in the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, Lord and Lady Willingdon have sat for portraits—the former to Mr. Oswald Birley and the latter to Mr. P. de Laszlo [7755]—which are to be presented to them “by all ranks of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in appreciation of all they did for the benefit of that force during the war, 1914-1918.”

General Sir William Marshall has issued invitations in the name of the subscribers to view the portraits at the galleries of Messrs. T. Agnew and Sons, 43, Old Bond-street, where they will be exhibited from Monday next to January 17.

Throughout the war Lord Willingdon was Governor of Bombay, which was the port for the departure and return of the Indian contingents and drafts.

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02/03/2008