The Welcome Committee consisted of all past mayors and Councillors. At the Pavilion they were received by the Mayor and Mayoress, Mrs. B. N. Southall, consisting of the members of the Town Council in their robes, the Lord Lieutenant the Chief Constable. The Town Clerk Mr. Hugo Talbot, O.B.E. read an address of welcome.
In return the mayor of Brighton presented the Maharaja, with a gold key which was a copy of the original key to the Royal Pavilion.
The inscription on the gate-way reads:
“This gateway is the gift of India in commemoration of her sons who – stricken in the Great War – were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915. Dedicated to the use of the inhabitants of the Brighton, B.N.” Southall, Mayor