AMAZING FEAT OF MEMORY
STORY TOLD AT N.Z. DINNER DOMINION GRADUATES MEET ICMTED PRESS ASSOCIATION--BY I'.I.iiCTKIC T ELEGRAI'U —CO PAT-tO Hl'. I (Received October 16. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. A remarkable story was told by Dr. L. J. Comrie, at a dinner in London of graduates of the University of New Zealand, about a man serv-. ing in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who, it was said, could remember the names and number of every soldier in his battalion. Headquarters were blown up and the records destroyed. To the astonishment of the commanding officer, this man supplied from memory not only the name and number of every man killed in the explosion, but the names and addresses of their next of kin. The man with the remarkable memory was Dr. A. C. Aitken, now lecturer in actuarial and statistical mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Sir William Marris, who presided, recalled that 40 years ago he and Lord Rutherford, who was also present, were in lodgings together as students at Canterbury College.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20988, 17 October 1933, Page 9
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