MEMORIAL SERVICE
LATE MAJOR-GEN. CHAYTOR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.! BLENHEIM .This Day. Veterans of the South African and the Great Wars paraded in large num-! bers at St. Luke's Church, Spring ! Creek, yesterday to pay tribute to one| of their distinguished leaders, the late I Major-General Sir Edward Chaytor. | Members of the family and large numbers of local residents attended the memorial service, the church being inadequate to accommodate the entire congregation. '
Bishop Milliard, Nelson, delivered an appropriate address, in thl course of which he alluded to the presence of so many of those who served under Sir Edward Chaytor. He said that nothing liner emerged from the war than the wonderful spirit of comradeship of "diggers."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 8
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116MEMORIAL SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 8
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