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A handful of attendees had been in Samoa at the time of the 1889 hurricane — Hugo Gebauer , Gottlieb Partsch , Robert Easthope , Christian Hellesoe and Apia builder Peter Paul , an immigrant from Baierthal , Germany , who is shown below leaning on a black umbrella . At the conclusion of the service the German settlers sung , “ Ich hatt ’ einen Kameraden ,” (“ I Had a Comrade ”), a traditional lament of the German armed forces .
Spemann Family Collection
Klinküller Family Collection , Restored T . Brunt 2013
Four interesting new people appear in this photo from the 1932 gathering , all on the right hand side . Apia lawyer and former German administration official , Mr Gustav Klinkmüller , who arrived in Samoa in 1906 , holds his hat in his hands . He gave the main speech . On the right is Deputy NZ Administrator , Mr Alfred Turnbull , who succeeded to the top position in 1935 . In the dark suit is Mr Manuel de Silva , of Portuguese-Samoan descent , who saved 16 German sailors during the hurricane of 1889 in which the German navy lost two ships and 93 men in Apia Harbour . Their deaths were some of those commemorated on the German monument . Next to him in the dark hat and tie is Pastor Raimund Reye , Superintendent of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission , who gave the opening address at the ceremony . He was the Samoan-born son of Mr Ernst Friedrich Reye and Mrs Margaretta Reye ( nee Betham ). The 29-year-old Reye spoke in German at the German monument , in English at a second ceremony at the Anglo-American Monument , and in Samoan beside the Samoan graves nearby . His eloquence in all three languages “ won golden opinions from everybody ,” according to a report in the “ Samoa Herald .”
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