ANZAC DAY

Otago Witness, Issue 3782, 7 September 1926, Page 31

ANZAC DAY

CHANGE OF NAME PROPOSED “GALLIPOLI DAY” SUGGESTED. LONDON, September 2. The Morning Post’s Constantinople correspondent reports that the St. Barnabas pilgrims to Gallipoli arrived at Constantinople after a voyage of inspection through the Dardanelles. At a meeting on board the steamer, of those who made the pilgrimage, it w resolved to endeavour to popularise the idea of altering the name “Anzac Day” to “Gallipoli Day,” in order “that the name shall give no monopoly of fame. OBJECT OF DESIRED CHANGE. LONDON, September 3. The Daily Mail’s Salonika correspondent statbs that the object of the ex-officers in seeking to change the name is more clearly to commemorate the landing of the 29th Division and the British share in the expedition. The pilgrims will spend three days at the Gallipoli cemeteries. A London message of August 26 stated : There was a touching scene at Victoria Station when 260 mothers, fathers, and children set out under the auspices of the St. Barnabas Association for a pilgrimage to the Gallipoli, Constantinople, and Salonika war graves. They came from all parts of Britain. There is no distinction between rich and ooor, there being onlv one class on the chartered vessel. The members of the party will be the first to land at Suvla Bav since the termination of hostilities. They are taking their own trumpeter, who will sound the “Last Post” before the minute’s silence alongside the Ca''e Helles memorial.