Anzac Day Service
Sir,—l hope the R.S.A. does not adopt the recent suggestion that the 11 o’clock service on Anzac Day be transferred to the Cathedral. The King Edward Barracks has been our military home. Before the outbreak of the First World War, Hie Ist Canterbury Regiment and other branches of the service held most parades in it. When the Canterbury quotas for the early reinforcements to the Main Body departed for Trentham Camp, our parents and friends always assembled at the east end of the barracks to farewell us. I have attended Anzac Day parades since April, 1917. From 1920 the service has always been held there. For these reasons I should regard any change as entirely unnecessary. I fail to see much advantage in the proposed change. Many men marched out of these barracks never to return. Thus, for many of us still, the barracks have very strong ties.—Yours, etc., H. S. BAVERSTOCK. July 17, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 12
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