Newspaper cutting - Viscount Called up on his 21st Birthday

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News cutting from British tabloid The Daily Sketch showing photographs taken by the paper at the presentation of a rose bowl to Vernon St.John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke by the Lydiard Park estate tenants on his coming of age on March 15th 1917.

The interest of a national paper was linked both to the fact Vernon received his army call-up papers on the eve of his birthday but also the allure of his 'romantic birth' which is recounted in the news section of the paper.

See Items of Interest below for other newspaper articles and clippings associated with Vernon's coming of age.