MILITARY RESERVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 99, 23 October 1940, Page 11

MILITARY RESERVE

STILL ROOM FOR OLD "DIGGERS"

Members of the Wellington service battalion of the National Military Reserve are full of enthusiasm for the important role they are performing in the defence of the Dominion, and, as is only to be expected seeing that they are all old soldiers, they are showing a high degree of efficiency. Through one cause and another, however, there are vacancies in the ranks and these are open to returned soldiers. Class II of the National Military Reserve consists wholly of returned soldiers —no others are eligible—and it is from this class that the service battalion is recruited. Members of the battalion are anxious that they should not lose their identity as a returned soldier unit and they are looking to ex-servicemen to fill vacancies as they occur. There is still room for ex-sol-diers in the battalion, and returned men will be cordially welcomed ■if they visit the Winter Show building on any night in the week to offer themselves for enlistment. The battalion breathes the spirit of comradeship born of the stern days of 1914-18 and the old wartime atmosphere,. known only to ex-soldiers, is at once apparent on seeing the battalion at its headquarters. Any man who has served in Flanders, Gallipoli, Palestine, or Egypt will be doing a useful thing for the country at the present time if he offers himself for service in the battalion.