NZEF - Featherston Military Training Camp NZ.

liverpool annie · Jan 13, 2009

The selection of this spot as a fitting place for the establishment of a great training camp came as a bombshell to the settlers, who viewed this move on the part of the authorities with no little apprehension. The need for a camp, surrounded by vast training fields such as the Wairarapa provides, was, however, urgent, and the work was pushed ahead with all possible speed.

To-day the camp-now a town in itself, pulsating with life and brimful of achievement-stands as a monument to the wonderful resources of our little country and her ability to rise nobly to great occasions.

Thousands of men have passed through the camp, and on no occasion have the settlers seen cause to justify the alarm they at first experienced, so firm and far-reaching has been the discipline enforced.

Many so-called "souvenirs" of the camp have been published, but none have so far attempted to at all adequately describe its growth or the increasing operations and activities of its occupants. This little book has been compiled in the hope that it will serve to show the people of New Zealand the important part played by Featherston Military Training Camp in the preparation of our young manhood for the grim work at the battle front.
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FEATHERSTON M.C., March, 1917

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