FLAG TO BE REPLACED
REGIMENTAL GEAR LOST IN GREECE REPLENISHMENT IN PROGRESS Tn a letter to Lieut.-Colonel D. A. C. Lilburne. E.D.. Captain F. P. Koorey, Wanganui, who is serving in the Middle East, discloses that a regimental flag, which was presented to the Ist. Battalion Wellington West Coast Regiment and attached to a Wellington unit, was lost in Greece. St'-ps are being taken now by the Wanganui Territorial Association to replace this ting. Captain Koorey. who was associated with Major R. K. Gordon, also of Wanganui, who is now a prisoner of war. states that the company not only Inst its flag but all its sports gear, and efforts are being made now to replenish it. The matter came before th" Wanganui City Patriotic Committee yesterday and the chairman (Mr. 11. M. Keesine' is to take the matter up with Colonel F. Waite. D. 5.0.. the New Zealand National Patriotic Funds Commissioner in the Middle East. Mr. Kcesing also intends to bring the matter of replenishment of sports gear before the Wellington Provincial Coun-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 188, 12 August 1941, Page 4
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175FLAG TO BE REPLACED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 188, 12 August 1941, Page 4
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