Gallipoli exhibit a record-breaker
A record number of visitors are stopping in at the Waiouru Military Museum this school holidays. Captain Garry Clayton said the museum is averaging 800 visitors a day which is nearly twenty percent higher than the last year's average. He attributes this to the Gallipoli exhibition (sponsored by the Cable Price Downer Group), which includes a recent film of Gallipoli veterans reminiscing and a wide range of informative displays. A tape of songs the soldiers would have known — 'Pack up your troubles', 'When the Moon Shines
Bright on Charlie Chaplin', 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary' — plays to set the mood. One of the many newspaper clippings from the war years is an advertisement with the punchline: "The new shade in dress material is Gallipoli. " Such crass commercialism contrasts sharply with a quotation from Corporal Cyril Bassett VC, the only New Zealander to receive a Victoria Cross from Gallipoli: "All my mates ever got were wooden crosses."
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 14, 4 September 1984, Page 3
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161Gallipoli exhibit a record-breaker Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 14, 4 September 1984, Page 3
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