“BACKS TO THE WALL”
LORD HAIG'S FAMOUS ORDER. . , [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] (Received October 18, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, October 17. By a request of the late Sir Philip Sassoon, the British Museum, which already possessed Lord Haig’s map of the Western front on September. 25, 1918, has now acquired another striking memento of the Great War. It is Lord Haig’s autographed draft of his famous “Backs to the Avail” order of April 11, 1918. ; This document, issued at a moment of extreme national danger from the enemy, Avhich Britain is again facing to-day, is written in a firm hand, in five paragraphs of exhortation to all ranks of the British forces in France. Its concluding passage is: “Every position must be held to the last main There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of you must fight to the end. The safetv of our homes and the freedom of mankind alike depend upon the conduct of each one of you, at this crith cal moment.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1939, Page 7
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