TROOPS FOR OVERSEAS
: , INSPECTION AT WAIOURU (P. A.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Bronzed and fit, and looking very smart in battledress and black berets, 750 men who are under training at the New Zealand Armoured Fighting Vehicle School for service overseas paraded at Waiouru Camp yesterday for inspection by Lieutenant-General E. Puttick, C.8., D.5.0., General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces. "If you have any personal fears that you may not >be able to stand up to the rigours of war, then you can banish such feelings altogether, as 99.9 per cent of all men are brave," said General Puttick in his address to the men. "You will be helped by the companionship and by the training you have undergone and your own personal pride comes to your aid. You may say to yourself, as I did in the 1914-18 war. 'There are five or six million men facing each other and I am not going to be the six million and first that can't do it. . When you leave this country don't forget to write to your people. A few lines from you on a dirty bit of paper will be better to them than the finest epistle from anyone else."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 270, 13 November 1943, Page 6
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