Each year, on the night of September 2nd, a smal group of returned soldiers in Wellington gather On the anniversary ot one of the least-known incidents of the Great Wari This was - the torpedoing of the troopship South-, .land in the Aegean Sea on the iug of September ' 2tid, 1915. The Southland was carrying several hundred Australian troops and> some forty New 1 Zealanders from the island of Lemnos to Gallipoli. At about 10.30 a.m. on a sunny morning, a German submarine suddenly appeared and fired two torpedoes at the vessel. The first missed the vessel by inches, but the second struck her in the bows. Altogether, there were some fifty lives lost, including three New Zealanders. These incidents of the war remain vividly in the minds of those concerned, who, as the years go by, are glad to meet their , former comrades and recall their adventures. Last Friday at the Beturned Soldiers’ Club, a pleasant evening was spent in anedote and reminiscence hv t.ho small band of Wellington men who were on hoard the. yes sol.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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177Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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