A FAMOUS REGIMENT

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12074, 10 June 1920, Page 8

A FAMOUS REGIMENT

* Second Edition

United Press Association—By Elec trie Telegraph—Copyright. Received June 10, noon London, June 9 At a reunion of comrades of the First King Edward's Horsa it was stated that over 550 young colonials in its ranks had obtained commiasions in the British armies during the war. A memorial in the shape of an elongated milestone, on which are inscribed the names of eighty-two who fell, will be shortly unveiled at Veille CbapeUe, where the regiment held up a German division all day long in 1918. General Herbert Lawrence, in a speech, hoped that the regiment would continue to link with the overseas dominions.