The meeting of returned soldier representatives from around the country that formed the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, 28 April 1916, at the Soldiers' Club, 290 Lambton Quay, Wellington. The chairman and inaugural president, Captain Donald Simson, is seated in the second row (fourth from left). The armband worn by the returned soldier in the front row (second from right) was authorised by government for wounded returned soldiers but the red armband was generally unpopular with the men.