MEMORY FEAT
BY SOLDIER DURING WAR.
(United Rress Association —By Electric
Telegraph.-—Copyright)
LONDON, October 16
A remarkable story was told by Dr. L. J. Oomrie, at a dinner in London of Graduates of the University of New Zealand, about a man serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary , Force, who claimed that he could remember the name, and the number of every other soldier in his battalion. The headquarters were blown up, and the records were destroyed. This was a chance that the man had
to prove his claim, but, to the astonishment of the commanding officer, he supplied from memory not only the name and number of every man killed in the explosion,. but also the names and addresses of their next-of-kin. Dr. G'omrie said that that man to-day is Dr. A. C. Aitken, a Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Sir William Morris, who presided, recalled that forty years ago he and Lord Rutherford, who also was present, were in lodgings together as students at the New Zealand University.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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170MEMORY FEAT Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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