“4000 GOOD MEN”
SOUTHLAND HOME GUARD
“We started with nothing and we have got nothing yet except 4000 good men here in Southland,” said Captain W. Bell, commander of the Home Guard fol' the Invercargill district, when responding to the toast of “The Home Guard” at the annual reunion of the Southland branch of the South African War Veterans’ Association on Saturday night. “The Home Guard is doing a jolly good job of work,” Captain Bell continued. “Some persons sneer at the Guard because it has no rifles, but if this country is ever invaded rifles will play only a secondary part and we are taking other measures that we are not making known to the general public just yet. If any invaders try to take this country they will have a hard job. The Home Guard will be there and it will do its part. If the guardsmen don't win, they will die fighting.” Captain Bell added that after the parade in the city on Anzac Day a tribute was paid to the “boys of the old brigade” by Major H. C. Mackenzie, the area officer.. In Major Mackenzie’s opinion the men who marched best in that parade were those who composed what was known as the old brigade of the Home Guard, and it included quite a number of South African veterans in its ranks.
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Southland Times, Issue 24426, 5 May 1941, Page 4
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