At the moment there are a considerable number of valuable historical items and records at Linton Camp which have yet to be properly identified and preserved. The CO 16 Field Regt has asked the Assn if we can help.
For this reason the `RNZA Historical Preservation Group` has been established, with the following tasks in mind; to determine how the Artillery items should be housed/displayed/recorded/preserved in the longer term, to identify as many faces as possible in the photographs and to identify background history to trophies and silverware.
Big (rtd) Graham Birch has agreed to head the HPG and Kerry Lee has agreed to become the curator for the displays/museum? going into the future.
We now need to get a team together which can in the first instance identify what we have and put names to faces etc.
The first meeting of the Group will take place in Linton in July 2012 (possibly 27-29 July period).
So if you are interested in historical matters and would like to become a member of this Group could you please let me know in the next week so that we can start to get thing organised. Just email Tony McLeod at rnza.association@gmail.com. Your help will not only be appreciated, it will be essential to the successful achievement of this task.
In the future, we may well use the process we develop for handling this task as a blueprint for also addressing the historic items held in the South Island, and in Auckland.
Members of the Group should plan on day trips to Linton, but barrack accomodation could be provided for anyone living further afield.
Looking forward to a `flood` of responses.
Tony McLeod
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