A VOICE FROM ANZAC

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1921, Page 1

A VOICE FROM ANZAC

SIR. AYLMER HUNTER-WESTON’S FINE MESSAGE. WELLINGTON, Aril 25. The Defence Department has received the following cable message from Lieut-General Sir Aylmer Huntcr-Wes-ten, K.C.8., D.S.O. at Chanak, Gallipoli. Please have following published so as to reach as many of our comrades in New Zealand-as possible: To the surviors of those who fought at the Dardanelles, on this, the Gth. anniversary of the original landing, and in the name of the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the Home Country who fought by your side, I, the old Commander of tho 29th. Division and participating : n a commemoration service which is being held at Anzac Cove, and am laying on the site of your glorious achievement a wreath of wild flowers, gathered from the site made for ever sacred to us by bloodshed in the Empire’s cause. May we wlio have survived do our best to spread thb spirit of cheerfulness and selfsacrifice of devotion to duty and comradeship which they so gloriously exemplified, and so help to attain the ideals for which we fought. (Signed Alymer Hunter-Weston, Chanak. (Lieut-General Sir Alymer HunterWeston, K.C.8.. D. 5.0., is the distinguished soldier who commanded the famous 29th. Division which effected the landings on Ihe beaches at Cape Hellos at the south end of Gallipoli Peninsula, at the same time that the Australians and New Zealanders were landing ai Anzac Gove. He remained in command of the 29th. Division until be was promoted lieutenant-general o command the Bth. Army Corps at the Dardanelles, and subsequently in France till the conclusion of hostilities.)