THE BRAVE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3154, 4 August 1917, Page 9

THE BRAVE DEAD

HONOURING STUDENTS , MEMORIES

GATHERING AT VICTORIA COLLEGE

A memorial .service in honour of the Victoria University College men who have fallen in the war was held in the ■College Gymnasium last ovoniug. Thoro was a largo attendance. Addressing the gathering, Professor Easteriield said a large number of tho college 6tudonte and ox-students had gono to tho war, and many of them would not return. It was to honour tho memory of thoso who would not return that the gathering had assembled that evening. He regretted that .the larger part, of them were unknown to him, but of . those ho did know many wero very dear 'to him. There wero men who had been in tho same tent with him in the Kitchener Camp, and others ho had known iis students. First.of all, why did they go? He had heard thoughtless peoplo say that undor-graudates. only went for tho fun of the thing. That was untrue. Many of them were absolutely opposed to fighting. It .was painful for them to go, and yet they "were amongst tho most lighthearted -n-hen they did go. They went becauee.of ascertain .sense.of duty which .they, placed before everything else. If wo.only had that.spirit of duty spread amongst us ivo would have something, wnich would always lead us to take the right course of action. • Was their action to bo in vain? That was a matter we must determine-largely, for ourselves.-If wo were stirred by the memory of those bravo men to fight for tho truth i-.nd for all they had held best, their action would not havo been in vain. And what was it they held dear? They thought thair country worth fighting for. Men would be-returning from the front, and the best possible must bo dono for them. •Students must ever koep that in mind. Some of those listening to him would .soon.be.voters, and they Should strive to carry ■ out the ideals of tho bravo men who had died for their country—the, men who considered their country worth fighting for, and who would havo loved to make it a better .country. Let tho present students make their ideals at least as high as tho ideals of the men whoso memories they were at, that moment honouring. They mourned the loss of thoso men, but it was not all eadness, .for .they had a'firm belief that thospirifc lived. They all had hope of a future life, and that wouldl help them to remember that these men did not died in vain. The memory of those men' would always bo.before them. Hβ trusted that though memories were short they would never forget the work of thoso .good.fellows who had.gone. It was for those who -were . left to keep alive tho ideals which were before the tludents who had. given their lives for their country. Those men had sought the path of duty, and to them the path of duty had been indeed the path of g'.ory. -The-gathering .stood while tho following list of "Victoria" students who died at the war was read:— Gerald Innes Atkinson, Samuel Arnold Atkinson, .Herman Stuiart Baddeley, Henry Barnard, Robert Greenlees Blaikie, Gilbert Vere Bogle, George Stafford Bogle, Archibald Geoffrey Brockett, Noel Fletch.er Burnett, Arthur Penf old Castle, Henry Francis Cotter, Sidney William Dempsey, Reginald Henry Dodson, William Thomas Dundon, Sidney Robert Ellis, Gerald Horton Fell, Paul Milton Freyberg, Frederick 'Walter -Brian Goodbenere, John Hannington Goulding, Lionel William Baird Hall, Vincent John Baird Hall, George M'Lachlan Hogben, Frederick Howard, Athol Hudson, George Covell Jackson, Herbert .William King, Russell Harvey Knapp, Leonard Mauglian Liardet, Arthur Trevor D'Arcy Long, Graham Groves Matheson, Alan Miller, John Edmund .Mills, William Henry Morris, Kenneth -Mumo, .Malcolm M'Cartney, Allan MacDougall, Donald Eric Caithness Mac-, kay, Cecil Angus \M'Niven, Donald Kelway ;Pallant, Charles' Ernest Phillips, William.:Beynon Austin Quick, Holgar Bro Randrup, Archibald James Robinson, William: Bramwell Rule, Henry Alan Shain, Ingelow Penrose Dumbar Stocker, Philip Gardiner Tattle, Lionel George -Taylor, Alister son, Arthur Llewellyn Webb, Holloway Elliott Winder, Douglas .Duncan Meatus Yeats, Albert Victor Young _ The Anglican Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Sprott) led the givuiering in prayer, hymns were suug, and the proceedings concluded -with the National Anthem.