Comrades-In-Arms Re-United
At the. opening shoot of the Taneatua Defence Rifle Club an unexpected reunion ;of old comrades-in-arms took place when Mr Fred Reichardt, Matata, met Major F. A. L. Eustace and his brother Lt. Commander O. H. Eustace. The three enlisted together in the British section of the Main Body, Ist N.Z.E.F., in September 1914..^
They were in the section of our troops chosen- to represent New Zealand at the Lord Mayor's Show at London in November, 1914. AH three ' later served in' Baluchistan with the Imperial Forces, and also overseas in World War 11. His brother, then a member of the British Naval Forces, was captured by the Japs at Singapore and was one of the forced labourers on the notorious Malayan railway construction job that killed two out of three of those who worked on it. Recently arrived back in New Zealand, he has rejoined, his brother at Tauranga. \
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 66, 21 November 1949, Page 5
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152Comrades-In-Arms Re-United Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 66, 21 November 1949, Page 5
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