The RNZA Association has sent $738.20 for the Vela Lavella Memorial fund, from members' donations and the Association's matching contribution.
The surplus after contributing to the memorial will go to the local village church for their reconstruction project, with the message that we here in the Gunner community in NZ are very grateful for their efforts in helping in the restoration of the Memorial and its ongoing upkeep.
Our Colonel Commandant, Barry Dreyer, comments that this is a very pleasing outcome, due to the generosity of the donors, and that the memorial should now be more permanent for our Gunner comrades, on the beach wher they died in 1943.
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