GLORIOUS EPIC
Montgomery's Tribute To Stand By Airborne Troops FIGHT WAS MAGNIFICENT British Official Wireless Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 29. Field-Marshal Montgomery, in a message to Major-General R. E. Urquhart, expressed appreciation of the 21st Army Group for the magnificent fight by his First Airborne Division at Arnhem. "There is no shadow of doubt that had you failed the operations elsewhere would have been gravely compromised. You did not fail, and all is well elsewhere. "I would like all Britain to know that your final message from Arnhem was, 'All will be ordered to break out rather than surrender. We have attempted our best and will continue to do our best as long as possible.' "
Field-Marshal Montgomery said that there could be few episodes in the annals of the British Army more glorious than the epic of Arnhem, and those that followed after would find it hard to live up to the standards the First Airborne -Division had set. "As long as we have in the armies of the British Empire officers and men who will do as you have done, then we can indeed look forward with complete confidence to the future. In the years to come it will be a great thing for any man to be able to say, 'I fought at Arnhem.' "
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 232, 30 September 1944, Page 5
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