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Well as I said I got to London & found out that I had been sent over with the for the purpose of taking part in a huge Investiture ceremony to be held by the King in Hyde Park but they [indecipherable] informed me that I shouldn't have been sent over, that they didn't want me!! that only V.Cs & D.C.M's were wanted – they told me to wait till Wednesday. What hardship!!! How I protested?? (I don't think), so I waited & on Tuesday I found I couldn't be due on Wednesday as they hadn't my name in to the War Office. How angry I was!!! (smilingly) you can guess, as it meant that I'd have to wait another week still on duty, how horrible!!!. I did – (my duty was to inspect Picadilly Circus & Street, Regent St., & all that part of London including many theatres & Grill rooms). Finally on Wed. June 13, 1917 at 11 a.m. I was presented to H.M. King George who hung on a medal, shook me by the fist & in 2 minutes exactly by the Town Hall clock finished what I had waited 2 weeks for – oh! it was a costly duty