ROLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25284, 9 September 1947, Page 5

ROLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED

CEREMONY AT HORNBY The vice-president of the Christchurch Returned Services’ Association (Mr H. E Batchelor), representing the returned servicemen and servicewomen of Canterbury, addressed a gathering at Hornby on Sunday when an honours board, bearing the names of 176 former servicemen, who came from the Hornby-Islington district was unveiled. “To-day we have many veterans in this country—servicemen of the First World War—who are living, or rather existing, in shacks and rooms, with nobody to care for them,” he said. “They are men who have reached the stage when they are no longer able to care for themselves, and it has been my sad dutv to help bury some of them. On some occasions the only persons present were the minister, the undertaker, the taxi-driver, and I,” said Mr Batche’or. Those were men who had /jeen prom'sed so much and who had received so little. It was, therefore, the dutv of everyone to see that proper homes were provided as soon as possible for returned men of the last war. so that they would decent care during their declining years. Ministers who officiated at the unveiling ceiemony were the Rev. Mr Anderson and Canon H. O. Hanby.