DIGGERS' REUNION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 9

DIGGERS' REUNION

ANNUAL GATHERING AT

EASTBOURNE.

The third annual reunion of Eastbourne returned soldiers took place on Saturday evening in the Masonic Hall, Mr. W. Perry presiding over an excel* lent gathering. The hall was decorated with. bunting and tho five long tables accommodated about a hundred "Diggers" and their friends. The toast list, which was limited, produced • many reminiscences -of past happenings, during which thoso present remembered not only events of past days but friends who had also worn the "Digger's" uniform, and wearing it had passed through the severest of ordeals, many.to remain. on the battlefield, and now only a memory spoken of on such special occasions as the present. Among the toasts honoured were the loyal tribute "N.Z.E.F.," "The Navy," the latter responded to by the brothers Orme, and "Fallen' Comrades," Mr. Harold Pierard singing R. L. ■ Stevenson's beautiful "Requiem," -which was followed by tho playing of "The Last Post." The following also contributed to the programme:—Messrs. J. Costley, J. Heard, L. Carter, Wakefield, and ft. Bosher. An orchestra consisting cf Messrs. S. Cimino, H. Downs, W. H. Bickerton, J. Wood, W. Probert, and W. Chrome played several items. The arrangements were in the hands of the same_ committee which had carried the reunion to a successful conclusion in the two previous years.