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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 5

[ firmed. Getting I p in the World. ! "Gentlemen." Major-Generai | Sir Andrew Russell in opening a briei I talk at the quarterly reunion of the J Hastings branch of the Returned j Soldiers' Association. "There was a ( time when we used to say diggers, but | I think we can take it that we are I now getting up in the . orld," he continued amid laughter. Later, the president, Mr. P. J. Priest, remarked that lie had heard it said that "diggers could be gentlemen sometimes." He recalled that for the South African j war the forces which were sent over- ' seas were described as contingents. In the war of 1914-18 they were known as the expeditionary force and ! reinforcements. "But now we are getting more important still .and we have echelons." he added.