AN ANZAC REQUIEM

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 165, 10 April 1944, Page 5

AN ANZAC REQUIEM

-Australian Suggestion

(Received April 9, 11.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE. April 9.

A suggestion from Dr. C. E. W. Botn, official Australian historian of the 19141S war, that Anzac Day services should contain suitable references to New Zealanders of the Twenty-ninth Division, the Royal Navy, and other Allied forces which took part with Australian troops in the landing at Gallipoli, is published in the current issue of "Mufti,' the official magazine of the Victorian Branch of the Returned Servicemen’s League. . In a letter to the magazine, Dr. Bean says that in his experience of Anzac Day celebrations, he has been struck by the number of occasions on which, through lack of forethought, no mention has been made of any except Australian troops. Dr. Bean suggests for inclusion in tlie Anzac Day service a torm of words which for want of a better name he would call “A Requiem” in commemoration of old comrades of the New Zealand. British. Indian, French, American, Greek, Russian, Chinese mid ail Dominion forces who fought as allies in the last and present wars.