Anzac Day Message To N.Z. 3rd. Division
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following Anzac Day message has been addressed by Major-General H. E. Barrowclough to troops of the Second N.Z.E.F. in the Pacific:
‘•ft is almost 30 years since the world was first thrilled by the courage and audacity of the gallant feat of arms which we have ever since commemorated on successive Anzac days. It was an epic venture. At that time it was the largest and most bitterly contested amphibious operation in the whole history of war.
“The landing at Gallipoli and the subsequent operations there and in Palestine, Egypt and France showed to the world that the men of New Zealand could endure hardship in the face of dangers as had been shown by those who in our glorious past established this Empire and founded it for ever upon the twin rocks of liberty and freedom. “Men of the First Expeditionary Force, with their lives and by their wounds, preserved for us that great heritage of freedom. ‘lf blood be the price of our heritage. Lord God wo have paid in full.’ New Significance “For more than a quarter of a century Anzac Day has been the day on which we delight to "honour their memory and the memory of those of their brothers who have fallen, in this present war around the shores of the Mediterranean. “But on this Anzac Bay the time honoured ceremony has acquired a new significance and additional meaning. Today and hereafter we honour our own dead. We pay our silent tribute to those gallant men of our own regiments buried in soldiers’ graves in Vella Lavella, Treasury and Green Islands and elsewhere in the Pacific. “We, too, are now a battle-stained division. Any reputation we may have won. any fame we may have achieved, was won and achieved for us by their valour and their devotion. We salute them with pride and affection and in tribute to them we renew our determination to carry on to a victorious conclusion the great struggle in which they so nobly gave their lives."
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Northern Advocate, 24 April 1944, Page 6
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