ACTIVE SERVICE RECALLED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 1 May 1934, Page 4

ACTIVE SERVICE RECALLED

GREAT WAR. EXPERIENCE'S. MEN OF WELLINGTON REGIMEN! Campaigning days in various theatre: of the Great War were recalled a. Palmerston North during the week end i>v over 3(X> ex-servicemen win assembled for the annual reunion o the Wellington Regiment of the Nei. Zealand Expeditionary Force. Briga dier-General H. E. Hart, C.U., C.M.G.. D. 5.0., Administrator of Samoa, presided at the reunion social held oi. Saturday evening and associated with him were the Mayor ol' Palmerstoi North, Mr. A. E. Man son; Mr. J. A Nash, M.P., the Rev. Canon G. Y Woodward, Major-General R Young 0.8., C.M.G., D. 5.0., Lieut. -Colone. YY’. H. Cunningham, D. 5.0., Lieut. Colonel F. K. Turnbull. D-5.0., Lieut.Colonel C. Weston, D. 5.0.; and Lieut. Colonel H. Holderness.

A concert given by 20 members oi the Tin Hat Club of the YYellingtoi Returned Soldiers’ Association occupied the first hour of the evening’: programme. With an estamine. •‘Somewhere in France” on the ev< of the armistice as the setting, tin popular items ranged from a representation of the scream and crash o, a ‘‘Jack Johnson,” “digger” patten and rollicking choruses to the plaintive strains of “Roses of Picardy” qnci vivacious numbers by “Mademoiselle Marie” interpreted by the only lad) member of the clever troupe, Mis: Gracie Kerr, of YVellington. Hei popularity was indicated by her enrol nient as an honorary member of th< regiment and the presentation b ; ' Lieut.-Colonel Cunningham of the regimental tie

An appropriate toast-list follower ihe concert programme. The loyal toast was proposed b> Brigadier-General Hart, and that I “Absent Comrades” by Lieutenant Colonel Cunningham; “The Requiem' was sung by Mr. H. Pierard, arid “The Reveille” was sounded on the bugle “Other,Units” was proposed by. Lieut.Colonel YVcston. The toast was replied to bv Colonel J. H. Whyte (Mounter Rifles). Major F. W. Garner (Maor Wars veteran), Colone] J. Rose (mn chine-gunners), and Lieutenant F Scrivener (King’s Royal Rifles). The toast of Palmerston North and visit ors was proposed hv Lieutenant-Colonel H. Holderness, and was replied tfl lr the Mayor, Mr Mnnsford, Mr. Nash and Canon Woodward. On Sunday morning the members o. the regiment paraded to All Saint; Church, where the colours of the regiment are deposited. The sermon wa: preached by Canon YYoodward and £ho lessons were road by Brigadier-General Hart and and Lieut.-Colonel Cunningham. . South Taranaki members of the regiment who attended the reunion Mere Messrs F. C. Foden, F. .7. Sago. J. R Holler, R. Corkhill, AY. H. James and T. Rouse.