KING GEORGE AND QUEEN
MARY'S CLUB FOR THE
OVERSEA FORCES,
Object of the Club.
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House was placed for the purpose by the Home Secretary, and who undertook the furnishing. The project received the approval of the High Commissioners of the Dominions, and a Com.
ce, containing among others representatives of the High Commissioners, with Mr. Steel. Maitland as Chairman, was entrusted with the panagement of the Club,
Their Majesties the King and Queen have graciously signified their approval of the Club, and expressed their wish that it should be named after them.
Accommodation.
Peel House is one of the training houses for the Metropolitan Police and, in the absence of a house actually built for such a club, no better The object of the above Club at Peel House, building could be found. Even so, of course, Regency Street, Westminster, is to provide considerable alterations were necessary. The comfortable sleeping and living accommodation public rooms had to be furnished and the for members of the Dominions and other oversea bedroom and bath accommodation enlarged. Contingents. Many of them have come on Regular provision is now made for 400 beds. furlough to London-often their first visit there- Sometimes even this number has been exceeded, and the want of any such accommodation in and on the nights of November 8th and 9th, the past was the cause of much discomfort, when 300 members of the Australian and New The need was first met in the case of the Canadian Zealand Contingents came up to London to lake soldiers by the opening of the Maple Leaf Club. ert in the Lord Mayor's procession, the Club But the necessities of the other Contingents were housed no fewer than 640 men. This was an no less real, and, indeed, much extended accom-bnormal number, which entrenched upon the modation was clearly wanted. The movement to recreation and rest-rooms, and it is not proposed meet the need was originated by the Honourable in future to house more than 400, which is the Mrs. Graham Murray. Her efforts were furthered maximum number the Club can safely and by Mrs. Moncreiffe, at whose disposal Peel comfortably accommodate.
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