THIRTY-EIGHTH REINFORCEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 119, 6 February 1918, Page 6

THIRTY-EIGHTH REINFORCEMENTS

NOW BEING MOBILISED. , Though the troops now being mobilised at Trentham are actually the Thirty-sixth draft to go _ into camp, their official designation is the Thirtyeighth Eeinforcemont. This is explained by the fact that when it was decided to reduce the strength of reinforcement drafts the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Reinforcements bad been concentrated _at the original strength and were in .training. From the surplus of these drafts the Thirtysixth and Thirty-seventh Reinforcements were made np. The first draft to be called into camp under the new order of things is the Thirty-eighth. At the present time the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh are at Featherston, and tho Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-eighth at Trentham. Yesterday most of tho Canterbury men of the Thirty-eighth went . into camp by tho afternoon train from Wellington, after having had lunch at the Bucklo Street Barracks. Tho Ota go men will follow to-day, and Wellington's and Auckland's quotas will go in to-morrow and 011 Friday respectively.