TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN.
' I 'HE QUALITY of the men of Anzac, who created a new word in history and endowed it with the full meaning of their own physical and mental vigour, saves the commemoration of their day from a purposeless sentimentalism, for they wrote their brief word on the fresh page of a new nation’s story with the bold hand of men of athletic mind and physique. The laden troopships, setting out at the beginning of the war, carried away the pick of the Rugby players, cricketers aud rowing men of a generation that may never be surpassed for fitness. But these men did not realise that they were the finest troops going to battle. They sailed towards the unknown, themselves unmeasured. They did not know that they were destined for one of the most desperate enterprises, and one which they would make the most glorious episode of the war. The attempt on Gallipoli, its ultimate failure forgotten, is' now the inspiration of you th to develop on the sporting field qualities that may be turned in modest endeavour unexpectedly to noble ends.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 744, 24 April 1933, Page 6
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