A MEMORY TEST
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MAN SUPPLIES COMPLETE RECORDS OF MISSING COMRADES NOW UNIVERSITY PROFES'SOR
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(Rec. 11 p.m.) London, October 16 A remarkable • story was told by Dr. L. J. Comrie at a dinner in LondoA of graduates of the New Zealand University. The story coneerned a man serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the war, who claimed that he could rememher the names and numbers of every man in his batallion. Headquarters was blown up and all records were destroyed. This gave a chance to the man to prove his claim and to the astonishment of his commanding officer, he supplied from memory, not only the name and number. of every man killed in the explosion but the names and addresses of their next of kin. That man was Dr. A. C. Aitken, now a member of the professorial staff of the University of Edinburgh. Sir William Marris, who presided recalled that 40 years ago he and Lord Rutherford, who was also present at the dinner, had been in Iodgings together as students of the j New Zealand University.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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185A MEMORY TEST Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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