REMEMBRANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 1

REMEMBRANCE

ANZAC DAY SERVICES SOLDIERS’ PARADE WREATHS FOR CENOTAPH Anzac Day will be celebrated on Monday with a parade of ex-service men, territorials and cadets, and with memorial services. In the morning the citizens’ service will be held in the Town Hall and arrangements are being made to hold a service for the pupils of all Auckland secondary schools there in the afternoon. Another service will be held at the Waikumete Cemetery in the afternoon. PARADE ORDERS Parade orders, which are being issued under the authority of Lieut.Colonel W. C. Sinel, D. 5.0., who will be in command, provide for the assembling of returned soldiers and sailors of all units and formations at the Queen’s Wharf, and a march up Queen Street past the cenotaph to the Town Hall. The parade will be divided into seven sections, each headed a band. The order of the march will be: No. 1 section: Band of the 3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles, Naval units, R.N. Reserve, mercantile marine. No. 2 section: Band of the Auckland Artillery, Air Force, South African War Veterans. Imperial units. No. 3 section: Band of the Ist Battalion Auckland Regiment, Australian, Canadian and South African units, mounted and cyclists, N.Z. Field Artillery. No. 4 section: Band of No. 1 Regimental District Senior Cadets, N.Z. Field Engineers, signallers and tunneliers, 3rd Auckland Infantry. No. 5 section: Band of the Port of Auckland, 6th Hauraki Infantry, loth North Auckland In-fantx-y, 16th Waikato Infanta’. No. 6 section: Band of the Auckland Salvation Army, other infantry units, N.Z. Rifle Bi-igade, N.Z. Pioneer Battalion. No. 7 section: Band of the Seddon Memorial Technical College Cadets, Machine Gun Corps, Army Service Corps, N.Z. Medical Corps, Dental and Veterinary Coi-ps, Ordnance, Pay, Postal and other units. , THE SERVICES The service in the Town Hall will be the same as that of last year, the addresses being given by Archbishop Averill, Primate of New Zealand, and the Rev. D. C. Herron, M.C. The mayor, Mr. Q. Baildon, will preside. The hymns will be: “O God Our Help in Ages Past,” “The Nameless Graves,” Kipling's ‘-Recessional,” and "For All the Saints.” The Last Post will be sounded by the Technical College Bugle Banci after the Dead March in “Saul” has been played by the city organist, Mr. Maughan Barnett. At the close of the service wreaths will be placed on the cenotaph by the mayor, the Government, the Returned Soldiers’ Association and by representatives of other naval, military and official bodies. They will later be removed to the memorial in Waikumete Cemetery, where the service will be helii at three o'clock in the afternoon. Next-of-kin tickets for the Town Hall service are available at the offices of the Returned Soldiers’ Association in Commerce Street. They will be limited to two to each family.