LATE BRIGADIER-GENERAL BROWN
* GENERAL GODLET'S APPRECIATION. ; In a. letter of condolence to Mrs. Brown, widow of , the late BrigadierGeneral Brown (killed in action), MajorGeneral Sir Alexander Godley, Commanding the Second Anzac Corps, writes appreciatively of the late officer's soldierly qualities. He says:—"l think you know the high opinion that I have had of him as a soldier ever since ho joined the camp at Tauherenikau in 1911, and this opinion Ims been amply confirmed by his record on active service. In Epypt as Provost-Marshal, on tho Gallipoh Peninsula, and on tho Soinine as a. battalion commander, and finally in Flanders as a brigadier, lie earned golden opinions. His superiors had the greatest confidence in him, and the respect and affection in which he was held by all under his command was most marked. , "He was killed at the head of his brigade on the top of the ridge close to the village of Messines, where he had so gallantly led his men to victory, and I only hope it may bo some small consolation to you to know that he met with such a soldier's death. "He was a man whom New Zealand and tho Empire could ill afford to lose, and his loss to the New Zealand Expeditionary Iforce is irreparable."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3149, 30 July 1917, Page 4
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