NEW ZEALAND TROOPS
Bearing On Battlefield Praised A message has been received by the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, from Major-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, officer-commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force overseas, as follows :— “I am most grateful to you and the Government for your kind cable of congratulations. The*honour conferred on me I take as an expression of admiration for the magnificent bearing on the battlefield of the New Zealand Forces here in the Middle East. I wish the people of New Zealand could know the esteem in which the New Zealanders are held and the golden opinions they have gained upon every side. May I add my most sincere thanks to, you and the Government for the gi'eat help given during two difficult and momentous years for New Zealand.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 89, 9 January 1942, Page 4
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