GENERAL GODLEY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1935, Page 10

GENERAL GODLEY

MESSAGE TO COMRADES

General Sir Alexander John Godley, late General' Officer Commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who recently visited New Zealand to renew acquaintances with the men who served under him in the Great War, has sent the following message to returned soldiers through the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association:—

Anzac Day of 1935 has a special significance for me, because it falls almost immediately after my return to the Old Cbuntry from a visit to my old Anzac comrades. That visit has, for me, cemented more firmly than ever the wonderful bond which binds together those of us to whom the name of Anzac means so much.

The brotherhood and comradeship of arms is the greatest and best comradeship in the world, and when, on the top of this, we have the spirit of Anzac, I feel that we have the most wonderful comradeship that ever existed in the history of war, and so I found it during my visit.

This year, fresh from having so lately seen so many of you, I feel my bond and my comradeship are specially close and intimate. I think of you all today—not only those who are still with us, but those who we left behind, and those who have since passed away. May the spirit of Anzac be with us, and ' with our descendants, for all time. .