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ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
MONTGOMERY'S MESSAGE TO TROOPS
_.■,.,, LONDON, December 22. Field-Marshal Montgomery, in a personal message to the 21st Army Group, says:
The forces of the British Empire in western Europe will spend Christmas, 3044, in the field. But what a change has come over the scene since last Christmas! The supreme battle of Normandy carried with it the liberation of France and Belgium. Last Christmas .we were in England, expectant and full of hope. This Christmas we are fighting in Germany. The conquest of ■ Germany remains.
"It would have been a brave man who on D Day would have said that in three months we would be in Brussels and Antwerp, having liberated nearly the whole of France and Belgium, and in six months would be fighting in Germany, having driven the enemy back across their own frontiers. But this is what has happened, and we must not fail to give praise and honour where it is due.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1944, Page 7
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