N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE.
A GREAT RECORD
MEMBERS’ REUNION
Un rwi XORAPH-PRESS ASSOCIATION > CHRISTCHURCH, May 17.
Former members of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade held a. reunion last night, Colonel A. E. Stewart presiding. After the loyal toast had been honoured, the chairman proposed the toast of “Fallen Comrades/' of whom he said there were 3000 of the brigade,' including their leader, BrigadierGeneral H. T. Fulton. The toast of “The Brigade” was proposed by Lieut-Colonel Thorns, chiei start officer of the Southern Command, who said that the war consisted of ’long months of monotony, punctuated by moments of intense .fear. All the same- they were not afraid of another one. Kephing the chairman said that the New Zealand Rifle Brigade’s name was honoured wherever historians recorded anything of the Great War. The brigade had two winners of the Victoria Cross, Lieut. Friekleton and Sergt. Laurent and over 6000 other decorations. That was the past, but what of the present? It was thenduty to back up the territorial regiments.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 5
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167N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 5
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