N.Z.E.F. MAIN BODY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19455, 14 October 1937, Page 4

N.Z.E.F. MAIN BODY

REUNION OF SURVIVORS WE L LING TON GATH BRING FIRST FOR THREE YEARS After an interval of three years, the Main Body men of the New Zetland Expeditionary Force will hold a major reunion in Wellington on Saturday, when survivors of the famous vanguard of the “Silent Division” will foregather from all parts of New Zealand, including Poverty Bay and the East Coast, to pay tribute to their fallen comrades and to spend a few hours in informal celebration of their own survival of an adventure almost without parallel in the pages of history. The programme laid down for the occasion will include a parade in the late afternoon of Saturday, when the Main Body men will fall in in Museum street, Wellington, to march to the Citizens’ War Memorial. There a wreath will be laid on the memorial, and the occasion will be further marked by the rendering, by the pipe band of the Wellington Regiment, of the “Flowers of the Forcft,” which will be followed by the “Last Post” and “Reveille,” sounded by TrumpetMajor J. Chegwin. The Air Force Band will head the march from the memorial, to a point in Victoria street adjacent to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association’s headquarters. In the evening, the reunion will commence at 8 o’clock, at the Winter Show building, the proceedings taking the form of a smoke concert. The committee in charge of the reunion organisation comprises MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell, Colonel H. E. Avery, Colonel W. H. Cunningham, and Messrs. W. L. Comrie, D. R. McDougall, G. Vance, C. W. Batten, J. D. Harper, R. V. McDowell, T. Lawless, P. G. Thompson, W. B. Fitchett, F. Jenkins, T. D. Carroll, L. Hill, G. Miller, J. B. Gray. E. E. Jolly, F. Waite and J. Spence.