FAREWELL PARTY TO LT. MOUNTBATTEN:
SKITTLE RIVAL RECEIVES INVITATION TO ROYAL WEDDING

LIEUTENANT PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN, R.N., IS SEEN AT THE FARENELL PARTY GIVEN IN HIS HONOUR BY THE "MOONRAKERS" SKITTLES TEAM, AT THE METHUEN ARMS, CORSHAM, WILTSHIRE, AT WHICH HE WAS PRESENTED WITH A PAIR OF "DAKS" AND A WALKING STICK, NOVEMBER 10, 1947

LEFT TO RIGHT, AROUND TABLES, ARE; LIEUTENANT PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN, WEARING, CIVILIAN CLOTHES; MR. JACK DAYMOND; LT. CDR. P. WORTH; LT. CDR. J. T. BIRCH; LT. CDR. P. HOARE; MR. E. HORLOCK; AND MR. JOE DAYMOND, LT. MOUNTBATTEN'S RIVAL AT SKITTLES, WHO HAS RECEIVED AN INVITATION TO ATTEND THE ROYAL WEDDING.

MR. JOE DAYMOND OWNED A BAKERY IN CORSHAM FOR FORTY-THREE YEARS AND ORGANISED THE "MOONRAKERS" SKITTLE TEAM ABOUT A YEAR AGO. LT. MOUNTBATTEN'S TEAM WAS GALLED THE "FIREBRAND."

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