WAR VETERANS MEET
MAIN BODY REUNION l Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Oct 17 Five hundred men of the main body New Zealand Expeditionary Force met m Wellington yesterday in the second triennial reunion of men who sailed from Wellington 23 years previously to the day and who were the first from the Dominion to enter the frav.
Honouring fallen comrades, 400 men, grouped according to the steamers in which they sailed from New Zealand, marched to the war memorial. At their head marched MajorGeneral Sir Andrew Russell and Colonel H. E. Avery, who were in charge of the parade.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 247, 18 October 1937, Page 8
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