The Star: November 01, 2018

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IN AWE: Sam and Rosie Averill will take part in Sunday’s event to
remember the liberation of a small French town.
Great-grandchildren of
WW1 hero will be present
at commemoration
CHRISTCHURCH
teenagers Rosie and Sam
Averill will help mark the
day – exactly 100 years
ago – that their greatgrandfather
took the first
steps towards the liberation
of a small French town.
Leslie Averill was only
a few years older than the
pair when he became the
first man to scale the ramparts
of Le Quesnoy, climbing
a precariously placed
ladder to help surprise the
German occupiers and seal
a spot in the history of the
Great War.
That brave act by 21-yearold
Lieutenant Averill and
his fellow New Zealand
Division soldiers will be
commemorated with the
unveiling of a plaque in
Christchurch’s Park of
Remembrance on Sunday
at 5pm.
For many, it was a young
nation’s finest hour of
World War 1.
Both Rosie, 16, and her
cousin, Sam, 15, are “very
proud to have the Averill
name.”
“We are both in awe of
our great-grandfather,” Rosie
said. “It must have been
utterly terrifying, putting
your life on the line to help
free a town.”
For Sam, his greatgrandfather’s
feat is “incredibly
impressive.”
“It’s cool that people
think of my family name
so highly, particularly in Le
Quesnoy,” he said.
Both Rosie and Sam have
Leslie Averill
visited the fortress town in
northern France, and plan
to return.
They view their trip to Le
Quesnoy as a pilgrimage,
“a rite of passage for all
family members.”
“Imagine being there for
the 150th anniversary,”
says Rosie, who hopes to
follow her great-grandfather
into the medical
profession.
On Sunday, Sam
and Rosie will join
Mayor Lianne Dalziel,
Christchurch Memorial
RSA vice-president Jim
Lilley, Lieutenant Colonel
Kendall Langston and
the Honorary Consuls
for France, Martine
Marshall-Durieux, and
Belgium, Lieve Bierque,
for the unveiling and tree
planting.
However, 70 Averill
family members will be
in Le Quesnoy that day
as the citizens remember
the heroic actions of the
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
soldiers from the other side
of the world.
While there was no loss
of civilian life, 130 New
Zealanders were killed in
the push to free the town.
A century later, visitors
can wander down Rue du
Docteur Averill and past
L’école maternelle du Docteur
Averill.
Work is also under way
to transform the former
mayor’s residence in the
town into a memorial
museum commemorating
New Zealand’s role in battles
on the Western Front.
Leslie Averill – by then a
well-known Christchurch
doctor – often returned to
the town.
Following the war, he
had won a New Zealand
Expeditionary Force scholarship
to study medicine
at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1926, Dr Averill was
appointed as the first
executive of St George’s
Hospital, holding that role
for more than 40 years. He
would continue to introduce
new ideas on surgery and
patient care in Canterbury
for many years.
In 1973, the French
government made Dr
Averill a Chevalier de la
Légion d’honneur – one
of the nation’s highest
honours. He died in
Christchurch on June 4,
1981, aged 84.