TWO SOLDIER GENERATIONS
“It has been my fortune to fight alongside two generations of soldiers, and from what I have seen during the past months I know the younger generation are brimful of courage and are ready to sacrifice all for the great cause for which v/e are fighting," said General Lord Gort in a recent address. “We, the older soldiers, the veterans of the last war, are proud to be ,m the ranks with these sons of Britain, and on this anniversary (August 4) our memories carry us back to the last war. We not unnaturally ask ourselves whether those who died in those never-to-be-forgotten years gave their lives in vain. I find comfort in the words of Abraham Lincoln: ‘We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.’ ”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24432, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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