LAYING OF WREATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 5

LAYING OF WREATH

CEREMONY AT HONOLULU

(By 'Telegraph—Pr'e;s Association.)

AUCKLAND, November;.!;.

When the liner Niagara ' reaches Honolulu on November 12,. about 40 .members :of her. crew who form -thii Niagara sub-branch of the. Returned Sailors and . Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia," will place upon the Cenotaph there a wreath to commemorate .the. 28...British, residents' of Honolulu who fell in ithe Great.War. The-oc-casion will be honoured by the attendance of. detachments • from the United States' Army, Air Force, and. Navy,, and will be fittingly celebrated: .The', wreath. has been • cleverly wrought in artificial wattle, gum leaves, auc poppies;to form the outline of the Australian coast. Mr. James Urquhart, president of the sub-branch, ..will place the wreath on the Cenotaph. .• Had the Niagara reached port :-■ on ■November il, ..the date .of the signing of/the Armistices the ceremony, would have formed, part of the main Honolulu celebrations. Nevertheless, through the Co-operation of the United States authorities, the 'returned men in. the i vessel will. take-part in a special cere- | mony. . . |. .Mr. Urquhart himself has-had an inj (cresting army career. He served With the Royal' Scots Greys for . 17 ! years and took, part in both the South I African.War, and the Great War. During the South African War he was captured by the Boers and placed in a concentration camp, but espaped and within a few. hours of his capture had found,' his way back to ' his own regiment. ' He went through the war .without >a scratchy nor was he wounded in the1 Great War; but he was: twice gassed in France. . His only son, who was- a- drummer-boy in the Liverpool Scottish, was killed in France.