XIth Regiment

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 10 August 1914, Page 6

Xlth Regiment

TO SEND A FULL COMPANY TO THE FRONT. ; .1 , It ip understood that a full company for the expeditionary force will be, raised in Taranaki, and thmeiore about 1 three huhdred''nicn will be inquired. Preference will be gbVeu to efficient Territorials, and men wnb It£iVb' r pfevi^tiKly ; bierved in New Zealand iwc&Vwill •lifev£fl?We next chance Those who "have 1 already Volunteered' and intending volunteers are hhfues'tel.Fto- f>’prirt to the local 1 ‘Defent-e ofh .•©, and those■ accepted will he drafted to' the New Plymouth base, where' they will undergo training prior to being sent to the expeditionary TrampiataPalnterston. They will leave-for New Plymouth hby the first trail) on Wednesday.' : Cb ;‘'C . bh’ H. F. Anderson, of'the ioserve, and late of the Smitlj Canterbury Mounted Rifles, has left for Palmerston to take charge of the machine gun section of the Second Mounted Rifles. There was a large crowd of people on the railway platform this morning to hid farewell to Stratford’s first contingent for the front, consisting of two Army Service men to prepare the camp | at Palmerston and seven men for theambulance section. These latter leave j Wellington by troopship under sealed : orders to-morrow evening.