Permanent Record For Ngvr
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
“VTONE of the splendid 11 deeds of members of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles was done under the eyes of the newspaper cor respondents. so the NGVR has been allowed to pass into oblivion without fitting tri bute being paid publicly to the unit—both as a unit, and as an organisation of young New Guinea men who pre pared themselves for war and engaged in war in a most creditable manner”—so writes a former resident of New Guinea to the “PIM.”
We are informed that the Pacific Territories Association has before it a suggestion that a small fund be created, for the purpose of providing some sort of memorial in New Guinea, after the war. which will place permanently on record the Territory’s debt of obligation to the NGVR.
Members of NGVR, being inspected by Sir Walter McNicoll (Administrator), in Rabaul, some time before the Jap invasion.