WAR PORTRAITS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 184, 24 April 1918, Page 7

WAR PORTRAITS

A UNIQUE COLLECTION. The gallery of soldiers' portraits, now in process of formation and ultimately destined to beconio part of the National ■War Musoum, is attracting a great deal of attention among visitors to tho Dominion Museum. Every day interested groups of.people are to be found lookini; at these photographs of New Zealanders who, in winning their distinctions—and often, alas! making the supremo sacrifice—on the battlefields o£ tho greatest war' the world has ever known, have also made the name of Sew Zealand honoured throughout tho jholo world. There are almost. a hundred photographs already framed, many more await framing, others are on the way from Franco and England, and, like .those already hung, they include _ all grades of distinction, from the brilliant achievements of the V.C. to the patient self-less devotion to duty which lies behind the brief record "Mentioned iti dispatches." There aro hundreds more portraits to obtain; tho work is a tremendous one, and one in which other countries are already following tho lead shown by Now Zealand. The public is asked to help tho committo in its woik by leaving at tho office of the -Dominion Museum tho address of any recipient of military distinction whoso portrait is not included in (ho present collection. .