"THE SILENT DIVISION."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18461, 26 July 1923, Page 7

"THE SILENT DIVISION."

GENERAL GODLESS TRIBUTE. ';i •; ' - - •V • ••• - - • LONDON. ■; July 15. At the unveiling of the plaque to commemorate the liberation of Le Quesnoy by the New - Zealand; ~ Division, Viscount Milner said the New Zealanders in scaling tie high ramparts of the fortress, which were considered unscalable, reached the final turning ? point in the ; war' and I achieved the pinnacle of- their wonderful : record. . It was a . most daring : act for a mere handful of New Zealanders to place a flimsy ladder against the great wall and mount .in single file, &nd ; its • success had. had a great moral effect on the Germans. ! General Sir A' J. Godley ssia;"No ( general ever commanded finer fighters than j those of she 'Silent Division,' who -have earned ■ the greatest of all reputations because they are known to the world as the men he always attained their objective at the exact moment, in accordance w<tn plans 1 They were models of efficiency i; in t all rPspeKj and' in all : ranks." \*J" 3, ' f The Mayor of Le Quesnoy gave : feeling expression to the' people's ;joy. when ; they stealthily peered out from their places of, refuge, and saw not . the i Germans, : but deliverers from a; strange land,"' of which they s then kney little. ; The , thought lof New Zealand would always create a" warm glow in ffcei* heart* - • 7.. ,-'7; -, ■ ; *0: ;