LECTURE ON THE WAR.
"FROM GALLIPOLI TO MESSINES."
I An informative war lecture, " From I Gallipoli to'Moßsi'nc8 l "'waß given in the I Pitt Street Methodist Schoolroom last I evening by the Rev? H.'L. Blamirea, chaplain to the forceß. A large number of lantern slides conveyed a vivid idea of the nature of the country New Zealand soldiers have been fighting over, both at Gallipoli and on the western front. Mr. Blamirea, who left New Zealand with the .uain Body, being attached to the Mounted Rifles, described the early incidents of the Gallipoli campaign, including some of the , ' naval operations in the Dardanelles. The slides snowing the front line trenches dur- | ing the fighting for Chunuk Bair and i Cheshire Ridge were particularly interest■'ing. Mr. Blamires-was in France from ■j the battle of the Somme in 1916 to the battle of Messines in June, 1917, a,nd he .(gave a capital account of the main inci- > j dents in which New Zealand soldiers took i part. A collection was taken up in aid of , the Soldiers' Comforts Fund.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 7
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177LECTURE ON THE WAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 7
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