AUGUST, 1914

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 4

AUGUST, 1914

Men Who Left Hastings for Great War In the story of Hastings during the yeare of the Great War, published an the Jubilee number of the HeraldTribune, the hames of those men who left Hastings in August 1914 did not include several who left in two small advance parties before the principal detachment entrained on August 17. 'Records of those comprising these smaller parties are difficult to make complete. Apparently on the night of Saturday, August 8, Defenee Headquarters, by means of notices posted in shop windows, called for a number of men willing to go to eamp the next day. One party consisted of volunteers for tbe Ambulance Corps and the other of men most of whom later jojned the Mounted Corps. The advance guard, so far as' can be learned now, consisted of Dieutenant Georgetti and Troopers Carroll, Hatherall, Burr, Elson, Hyde, Howard, and Martin-Smith. On Monday, August 10, the following entrained : Corporal J. T. McQuirk, Privates Grant, McNaughton, Duncan, Halse, Portas, Herdson, McKeown, Broad, E. Maney, E. Oruickshanks. Temperly, A, Ford, B. H. Trim, C. Hcald and R. Chadwiek. The ciitizens' committee. under the direction of the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs Hart, worked quickly to raise supplies, and a full issue of blankete, shirls, towels, soeks and personal comforts was provide.d for the -paities before tbey left^