THE RIFLE BRIGADE
j THEIR BAPTISM OP FIRE { 1 ' COOL AND COURAGEOUS • 1 " The Prime Minister has received the - following telegram from the New Zea- ■ land War Correspondent, Mr. Malcolm ' Ross: — ' ' i "In tbe action on Christmas Day,the First Battalion of the New Zealand - | I Rifle Brigade was absolutely cool, and j displayed great courage under fire. ' They stormed a donga (a dry watercourse), and with the Sikhs advanced ; [ within two hundred yards of tho enemy, ' finally driving them off with the bay- i onet. "At night, carrying their wounded, ; , they marched back seven miles to camp . | singing. They thoroughly enjoyed the day. The wounded are in hospital at Cairo and Alexandria, and nearly all are progressing favourably." ' .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 5
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