AN HEROIC REGIMENT
KING EDWARD’S HORSE WAR EXPLOIT RECALLED LONDON, March 20. Four hundred gallant colonials were among those who commemorated when Colonel Lionel James, the regiment’s last colonel, laid the foundation stone ot King Edward’s Horse Hall at the Imperial Services College, W indsor. Colonel James recalled the regiment s admirable war record, and lie said that, at one juncture, the only troops at 5 pres between the Germans, who were surging on, and the Channel pats, were 4(0 of King Edward’s Horse, who withstood the onslaught for eight, hours. The regiment was originally Yeomanry called “The King’s Colonials,’’ and was organised as King Edward’s Horse shortly before the war. It contained four squadrons representing the Dominions, and including Australians and New Zealanders, the last of whom supplied tho majority of the 400 abovenamed and most of whom laid down their lives to prevent the enemy breaking through.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17522, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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