OTAGO UNITS
REUNION ARRANGED
The committee formed after the parade on Anzac Day to arrange for a reunion of ex-members of the Otago Regiment and other Otago apd Southland units in Wellington has received a very satisfactory response from those Wellington residents who served in "the farthest south regiment in the British Empire." ...... At least four senior officers who served with the regiment intend to be present, and all other' ranks will be represented. The regiment numbered two Victoria Cross winners in its ranks, but both were killed in action—Sergeant Brown, V.C., falling in the first Battle of the Somme at Flers in 1916, and Sergeant Dick Travers, V.C., New Zealand's most picturesque soldier, being killed in the second Battle of the Somme at Gommecourt in 1918. The secretary of the reunion committee, Mr. G. A. Vincent, has sent out a large number of notices to exmembers, and in addition to those who have replied others are expected and will be welcomed by old comrades when the reunion takes place next Saturday night. . .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 13
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173OTAGO UNITS Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 13
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