MUSKETRY FOR THE NAVY
MEN FROM CRUISERS IN CAMP. There was hiovevent at the Queen’s Wharf yesterday afternoon, when about 320 men and 22 officers from H.M.S. Dunedin and H.M.S. Diomede paraded and marched to Lambton station, where they entrained for 1 rentham camp, in? order to undergo their annual instruction in musketry. It recalled the days of the Great War to see troops on the march with rifles sloped and tin hats strapped to their valises. The naval detachment will remain in camp for a couple of weeks, and will then be replaced by a second detachment. Lieu-tenant-Commander Selby will be in charge of the camp.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 27, 27 October 1926, Page 3
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