On This Day
On This Day, 23 June 1917
On 23, Jun 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Birmingham Daily Gazette
Saturday 23 June 1917
BOY SCOUTS’ TRIBUTE
Between 400 and 500 Boy Scouts attended the first part of the funeral for their late Chief Commissioner, Mr. Ernest Cope Fowke, the well-known Birmingham solicitor.
Starting from Ingleside, Wellington-road, Edgbaston, at noon the procession headed by the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes Band, proceeded by road to Atherstone, where the interment took place.
