AN OLD LADY'S SENTIMENT
THE scene, the Cenotaph, Auckland. The occasion, the laying of a memorial wreath by the N.Z.E.F. Main Body Association. The time, Sunday morning after the annual reunion. A number of veteran Diggers had paid their tribute to the memory of fallen comrades in a march, accompanied by the Waterside Workers' Band, to the Domain, and the ceremony of laying a floral emblem had been carried out with due solemnity. An old lady, doubtless with some absent loved-one in her thoughts, accosted Mr. C. W. O'Hara, vicepresident of the association, who placed the wreath, and unostentatiously handing him a pound note, requested him to "take the boys to the kiosk for a cup of morning tea." Her simple but obviously sincere gesture deeply touched the "hardest" Digger, and the cup of tea each received was the more highly appreciated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 301, 20 December 1941, Page 14
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142AN OLD LADY'S SENTIMENT Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 301, 20 December 1941, Page 14
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