DOMINION'S SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19377, 12 July 1926, Page 10

DOMINION'S SOLDIERS.

BATTLEFIELD MEMORIALS. 'LECTURE BY THE DESIGNER. A lecture on the New Zealand battlefield memorials overseas will be delivered this evening at the Town Hall by Mr. S. Hurst Seager, of Christchurch, the architect who designed the memorials. The lecture, which will be repeated tomorrow evening, is one of a series being delivered in. various centres of the Dominion by Mr. Seager by arrangement with the Minister of Internal Affairs. It will be illustrated . by over 200 lantern slides, reproduced from photographs taken by Mr. Seager as the work of erecting the memorials proceeded. As a large majority of'the people of the Dominion will never have the opportunity of seeing the New Zealand Government" battle exploit memorials erected in France, Belgium and Gallipoli, the opportunity of hearing about them and seeing on ®the screen the chief details in connection with their design and erection will be welcomed not only by returned soldiers, but by the relatives and friends of those who fell in the Great War. Although the monuments and cemeteries are the principal subjects in a series of sixty slides on Gallipoli, the general condition of tlje Peninsula as it appears to-day is madfe quite clear. In the Western theatre of the war seventeen- slides relate to the; Longueval memorial, showing in particular the unveiling ceremony .on October, 8, 1922. Another series of 'thirty-five shows .the country about Messin'es 'before the restoration of the soil began, the panorama from the site of. the Messines memorial and the. unveiling of the; memorial'by the King of the Belgians on August 1, 1924. ■ The unveiling, of the Gravenstafel -memorial on the following day iby Sir James Allen is also well illustrated. - a A series <?f ninety,slides is devoted to the Le Quesiloy memorial. These show the picturesque surroundings of the site, the process, of. construction-\>f the New Zealand garden and the beauty of the garden when completed.- A further series illustrates the. unveiling ceremony on July 15, 1923, when the people of the town marched in procession to the site. The French memorial in the centre of the town is also illustrated, showing the inscription, which includes: "And to the memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the New Zealand Division, who died in the deliverance of this village on November 4, 1918." ' The Auckland City Council has granted the use of the Town Hall for the lectures and the local branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association is assisting with the arrangements in connection with them. There will be no charge for admission.