THE BRITISH SOLDIER
Sir, —I have read for weeks about the wonderful deeds ol the Anzacs. I'ar ho if from me, a returned soldier and a member in the last war of our magnificent New Zealand Division, to say one word in disparagement of Anzac troops. But why is so little said about the British soldiers in the reports received over the air and in cable messages ? At last an Fnglishman takes up the cudgels for the greatest soldier in the world, the poor despised Tommy. Major-General .Maurice asks pertinentlv why we only hear of the deeds of Anzacs, South Africans and Indian troops. Why, indeed? New Zea landers and Australians have been fighting a wonderful rearguard action. No doubt the British troops, to say nothing of the Greeks, have been doing the same. The greatest rearguard action of all time, I prophesy, will be quoted as Dunkirk, and the British soldiers fought this without the help of any colonial troops. A hurried reader will probably accuse me of being a "iloniie," but my ancestors arrived in this country over 100 years ago. N. M. Lktiiiikid(;k.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23954, 2 May 1941, Page 10
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186THE BRITISH SOLDIER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23954, 2 May 1941, Page 10
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