“WON THE WAR”
THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S TRIBUTE TO BRITISH SOLDIERS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) U£*<ut«r’e Telegrams.) LONDON, July 16. General Birdwood, speaking at a Colonial Institute luncheon in his honour, said he always put full and proper value on the man behind the gun—Tommy Atkins and Jack Tar at Home, the Digger in Australia and New Zealand, and the Sowar and Sepoy iri India. As long as he lived he would see in bis mind’s eye the sturdy brave British soldier in France, and the dauntless Anzacs storming and holding the. heights of Gallipoli. These men won\lfC war. It was not too much to hope the same men in commerce and industry would win the peace. The Duke of Connaught, who presided, paid a tribute to General Birdwood, whom be described as "a British soldier, gentleman, and a friend of the Empire.’ ’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 July 1925, Page 5
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