TALLY-HO WORSLEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1919, Page 7

TALLY-HO WORSLEY.

A NEW ZEALANDER IN NORTH RUSSIA. "I left Archangel to meet the men from the trenches and the blockhouses, but I was twenty miles from Bereznik when their barge swung round the bend of the river," wrote a correspondent of tho London Mail from North Russia last month, "Our barge was taking up the Oxford and Bucks reliefs, and was tied' up while the men bathed. When the Scots .were sighted, cheers were sent across the water. From the Scots, tiroil and war-weary, but 'supremely happy, Bincc their work was done and home Was almost in sight, came the Blogan 'Tally-. ' Ho.' :■■:■ ■>-'■■■

"This is the cry that curried -litem through a hundredbattles with the-"Bol-sheviks, and oVcty huntsman - at"'Home, when he loftrtis of the triumph's wph, will find a 'deeper thrill 6t emotion in the call. In November, wbeh'the'Scots feared that Englrtnu" had forgotten them, acute depression threatened, TOifc 'Lieuteiiant Frank Worsley, who was with Shackloton'a ]3xxpeditipn r came to inspire fresh hope. He taught 'them the slogan and came to be known" as 'Taljy-Ho Worsley.'" '''; ' ' Lieutenant WorsTey is a New Zealandc'r, and his cheerful "Tally:Ho v fs fatfiil; iar' to many of-his I 'friends''in' country. It has ! flut new spirit jfifo" the hearts qf jaded Antarctic eixptofefa, as Well- as the Hearts of the British soldier's in North Russia, Lieutenant Worsky's characteristics are resource, Ughtheartedness, endurance and' pluck. He joined the Navy immediately his Work with Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic Expedition was completed, and he had won his D.S.O. at sea before hj« went to North Russia with his old chief