Former servicemen meet Brigadier

Press, 16 November 1977, Page 6

Former servicemen meet Brigadier

The director of the Army, Memorial Museum Trust 1 Board’s fund-raising com- i mittee (Brigadier J. T. Bur- i rows) was on familiar . ground when he met former servicemen at the South 1 Canterbury Returned Services’ Association’s 1 administrative headquarters in Wai-iti Road, last even- ! ing. Brigadier Burrows, who is ! on a nation-wide tour pro- 1 moting the proposed War 1 Memorial Museum at Waiouru, will complete an- : other “leg of his journey, • which began on October 12, when he visits Ashburton ' today. Brigadier Burrows will be! in Christchurch on Friday,! • and then he will visit Alex-1' andra-Clyde on November! 24. After his arrival from! Dunedin, the visitor met the! executive of the S.C.R.S.A. and was later introduced toi a large gathering of mem-! bers by the president of the) club (Mr D. J. Morrow). !

Brigadier Burrows commended the museum proposal to members. A vote of thanks was proposed by Mr J. V. Smallridge, one of several former members of the Twentieth New Zealand Infantry Battalion, in which Brigadier Burrows served. Brigadier Burrows, who left New Zealand with the First Contingent in the Second World War, was Officer Commanding B Company, 20 Bn. He commanded the unit in May, 1941, and from December, 1941 until July, 1942. Subsequently, after the conversion of the infantry battalion to armour, Briga- ; dier Burrows was Commandi ing Officer of 20 Armoured I Regiment. ! Among those at last 'night’s informal function at ithe ’s.c.r.s.a. was Mr G. A. (T. Rhodes, who sailed from I New Zealand with the ■ Twentieth Battalion as a | second-lieutenant (mortars) !in Headquarters Company, land who later became adjutant of the unit.