FALLEN NEW ZEALANDERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19018, 15 May 1925, Page 9

FALLEN NEW ZEALANDERS.

MEMORIAL AT GALLIPOLI THE UNVEILING CEREMONY. I FIVE HUNDRED PILGRIMS. AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE. TURKS " SHOW SYMPATHY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ('Keceiveti 10.5 p.m.) .Renter. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 13. There was almost a gala day at. the Dardanelles* and the Peninsula to-day. The occasion was the unveiling of tho • Chunuk Bail- Memorial to fallen New Zealanders, erected on Russell Top. Five hundred pilgrims, including several ex-combatants from all parts of tho Empire, arrived l>y tho liner Ormonde. The Turkish authorities granted them every facility, and tho Governor of Gallipoli and Chunuk attended the ceremony. A detachment of gendarmerie rendered honours. All the carts on the Peninsula had been requisitioned to transport the visitors. It was a stiff climb from tho beach, and it was an odd sight to sec the springless vehicles of all descriptions being drawn by horses, bullocks, and donkeys up the narrow trail. Two cars belonging to tho War Graves Commission conveyed Sir James Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, his daughter, General Sir Alexander Godley, General Sir Andrew Russell, and Lady Godley. Sir James Allen, in his speech, sympathetically .referred to the Turks, who, he said, had recognised the. graves on Gallipoli as a sacred trust. General Godley unveiled the memorial, ahd in his speech described the fighting during the dark days of 1915. General Russell eulogised tho splendid qualities of the New Zealanders. He touchingly described the death of Lieu-tenant-Colonel A. Bauchop, who was officer commanding the Otago Mounted Rifles, and who was mortally wounded at Chunuk Bair. He responded to General Russell's effort to cheer him up with: "This is the end." Then he'paused, and a smilo flickered over his face, and he • added: "And a jolly good end, too." The Rev. M. Mollineux, formerly chaplain to the /New Zealand forces, read the service, and then the " Last Post" was sounded. Beautiful wreaths were laid on the monument and ex-service organisations. Several other cemeteries were visited, notably the Beach Cemetery, where Sir ' James Allen' laid a wreath. Sir Jamas entertained the. Turkish officials at ten on board the Ormonde. The liner leaves Constantinople to-morrow. / The Chunuk Bair Memorial crowns the summit of the hill of that name. On the western side one looks down over The Farm, Cheshire Ridge, Aghvle Dere. and away to,where the Aegean blue laps the beach near Embarkation Pier Cemetery. The monument is a massive one, 50ft. high, on the plan of a Greek Cross, built of white Ulgan Dere stone backed ' with concrete. On the south front is a tablet of 'white Negresina marble. It bears the inscription: "In Honour of the Soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary 'Force, August 8, 1915. From the Uttermost Ends of tho Earth. Part of the programme for tho visit of the party to Gallipoli is for the Ormonde to lie off V beach, where the River Clyde was beached. She will land here passengers visiting the Holies area cemeteries, and a wreath will be laid on the Helles Memorial, which commemorates those 12,000 odd missing and unidentified Brit- / ish dead, including the New Zealariders who fell in the attack on Krithia on May 5 1915, and' also all who were buried at sea. The dames of New Zealanders who fell in this action are commemorated on tablets on the screen wall at Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery. Here Sir James ' Allen will lay a wreath in memory of the New Zealand missing, and another on the grave of his son, John Hugh Allen, in Redoubt Cemetery. The Ormonde will then proceed to Constantinople for two days to permit of a visit to the Haidra / Pasha Crimean Cemetery and Feri Keni Cemetery, where a number of British, including Anzacs who died while prisoners of war, are buried. These cemeteries are in charge of a former Anzac, Staff-Ser-geant Millington, one of the original 12th Battalion. ,