AUSTRALIANS IN THE WAR
BRIGADIER-GENERAL’S REVELATIONS Loudon, February 21. "In the early summer of 1916 1 was asked to take fifty to one hundred Anzacs for instruction in the Lewis gun school,” writes BrigadierGeneral Baker-Carr, in “From Chauffeur to Brigadier,” which is now being published. . , , , “It was hinted that a refusal would not be misunderstood. Though tine fighters, the Australians were not always most tractable in the back areas. They forcibly released some of their comrades at Etaples and burned down the guard room. I told the first Australian squad that the whole lot would be returned straight away, if a single complaint was made about them. Itwas the first of many Australian classes and there was not a single complaint.”
The General relates that wnen a party of Australians visited Paris they dropped from a bridge into the river two military policemen who were demanding a special pass to cross, which the troopers did not possess.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 128, 24 February 1930, Page 11
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