ORMONDVILLE SERVICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 3

ORMONDVILLE SERVICE

(Erom Our Own Correspondent). ORMONDVILLE, Last Night. There was a very good congregation at the Anglican Church on Sunday on the occasion of the Anzac service, incliiding ' nearly all the sehool children ahd the Boy Scouts. The vicar, the Rpv. S. B. R. Corbin, gave • a very impressive and .interesting address, describing how those who went forth to the war lit a torch of service and selfsacriflce which it is the duty and privilege of those who- come after them to carry on, so that its flame may be lef t for ever tburning. Mr. Corbin went on't'o tell of the .awn . on the north' side of. Westminster Abbey, a portion of which is divided into sniall plot8 of ground, those being allocated as follows^— One to each regioient of the British Army, one to eaeh division of the Navy, ahd one to each British Dominion. On Afmistice Dav little erosses and poppies are sold for The benefit of returned- soldiers' funds. These are then, taken 'and planted in the particular plot set aside for that branch of the Army, Nayy, .or British •Enipire with which the one in whose .nemory this is being done was connected After r resting there for about a l'ortnight, the tiny erosses' and the* poppies are all collected and burnt, the ashes' being, saved and seaftered ' ' soniewhere in France."Mr. Corbin said he. and Mrs. Corbin had, with g'reat pride and reverence, planted seveial erosses - and poppies last Armistice Day to the memory of taen of the Hawke 's Bay Eegimcnt. All classes, from the King to. the htmblest of his subjects, could thus honour the memory of those who gave their lives in the .Great War. At the elose of his address, Mr. Corbin read the local roll of honour. The services ended with the singing of the Nation al Anthem.