ANZAC DAY IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4

ANZAC DAY IN BRITAIN

SERVICE AT ST. MARTIN’S ADDRESS BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON. GALLIPOLI VETERANS PRESENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, April 25. Men and women from all the Australian and New Zealand services mingled with bemedalled veterans of the last war at the Anzac Day service in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. “The threat which is now on the very threshold of Australia and New Zealand, and, indeed, every part of the Empire, is graver every day than in the last war,” said the Bishop of London. “We are here again to dedicate ourselves, never doubting that in the providence of God what the Anzacs in their sacrifice began we through our sacrifice shall complete. “The task will not be complete with victory. This Empire holds the key to the problem of the future of civilisation. Therein is our opportunity and our task.”

' The High Commissioners, Mi’ Bruce and Mr Jordan, read the lessons. Those present included the Dominions Secretary, Mr Attlee, Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, General Sir Alan Brccke, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, and Australian and New Zealand service leaders and agents-gene-ral. A veteran quartet among the congregation comprised Sergeants Coull (Christchurch) and Flynn (Canterbury), Lance-Corporal Cormay (Rotorua) and Sapper Fisher (Auckland). They served on Gallipoli in the last war and are now with the Fourteenth Forestry Company. Mr E. J. F. Lane, now living in London, who lost a leg on Gallipoli, sat near the aisle, where an invalid chair was wheeled in with Flight Sergeant Mills (New Plymouth), who received leg injuries in this country.

At the Cenotaph Anzac service General Sir Alexander Godley laid a wreath on behalf of New Zealand exservicemen.