KING EDWARD'S HORSE
ADMIRABLE WAR RECORD
NEW ZEALANDERS TO FORE
LONDON, -Uth March. your hundred gallant Colonials were among those commemorated when Colonel Lionel James, 'llic regiment's lait colonel, laid the foundation-stone of the King Edward's Horse Hall at the Imperial Service College, Windsor. Colonel James recalled the regiment's admirable war record, and said that, at one juncture, the otily troops at Ypres between the Germans, who wore surging on, and tho Channel ports were 400 men of King Edward's Horse, who withstood tho onslaught for eight hours. The regiment, originally a Yeomanry body called tho "King's Colonials," was" organised as King Edward's Horse shortly before the war. It contained four squadrons representing the Dominions, including Australians and New Zealanders, the last of whom supplied the majority of tho 400 whose names are commemorated. Most of them laid down their lives to prevent the enemy | from breaking through.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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148KING EDWARD'S HORSE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 9
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