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Shannon News, 2 June 1927, Page 2

I wonder (writes “The Watcher” to “The Post”) how many persons in Australia or New. Zealand know jus l : where the magic letters “Anzac’ were first used to indicate a band of soldiers bearing British arms? Millions will ■ say at Gallipoli, but they are wrong, for fifteen years before then the letters were used in South Africa. The writer Was the man that branded the nrst kit bag about twenty miles from the to'An of Mafeking, when Maj. Anderso i took charge of the Australian and New Zealand Army Contingents, near Otto*feoop,. ip tbe Transvaal. Tta words wexe”hbi>r6^iiitedAS follows: Anzac on our kit bags. We under Lord Methuen at the time. Our next colonel was Colonel Vcn Donnop, and strange to say, with such a name, he. was a Scotchman. He is how, a major-gen-eral. ” ' i’