WAR PORTRAITS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9953, 24 April 1918, Page 6

WAR PORTRAITS

A UNIQUE COLLECTION.

The gallery of soldiers' portraits now in procoss of formation, and ultimately destined to become part of the Na'tional War Museum, is attracting a great deal of attention among visitors to tho Dominion Museum. Every day one finds interested groups of people looking at those photographs of New Zealanders who, in winning their distinctions, and, often, alasl making the supreme sacrifice on the battlefields of the greatest war the world has ever known, have also'made the name of Now, Zealand honoured throughout the whole world. There are almost a hundred photographs already framed, many more await framing, others are on tho way from France and England, and, like those already hung, they include all grades of distinction, from tho brilliant achievements of the V.C. to the patient, self-loss devotion to duty which lies behind the brief rocord "mentioned in dispatches." There are hundreds more\ portraits to obtain, tho work is a tremendous ono, and one in which other countries are already following tho load choirn by Now Zealand. Tho public is asked to help tho committee in its work by leaving at tho office of tho Dominion Museum the address of any recipient of military distinction whose portrait is not included'im tho i-presont collection.