GALLIPOLI MEN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 167, 29 April 1935, Page 6

GALLIPOLI MEN.

REUNION AT AUCKLAND. ANZAC SPIRIT REKINDLED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 27. A returned soldiers’ reunion, to which only Gallipoli men were invited, was held last night in Auckland. The Town Hall concert chamber had been engaged, but the response to the invitation far exceeded expectations and the hall was badiy overcrowded. Some could not get in at • all. The splendid spirit of comradeship of Gallipoli was rekindled, wartime rank gounted for nothing and the president of the assembly was a farrier in the Signallers. “As a Digger to Diggers, I ask for order,” he said, as a preliminary to remarking that the name of Anzac was held in the highest esteem throughout New Zealand and would continue to be. He read apologies for absence from Major-General Sir William SinclairBurgess, and a message of good wishes from General Sir Alexander Godlev.

In proposing the toast of “Fallen Comrades,” the president said that there had been times when every one of them, could have done a little more than they had done, and that if they had done so they probably would have fallen with those they were honouring. It was only a matter of years before those left would go out to their rendezvous, and when that time came let them go out with the same courage as shown 'by those who fell on the Peninsula. The lights in the hall were extinguished while the toast was honoured. It was resolved that a Gallipoli Association should he formed and a reunion held annually.