COMRADES IN ARMS
SECOND BRIGADE’S REUNION. POPULAR OFFICER REMEMBERED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The first re union of the Second Brigade of the New Zealand Field Artillery was held on Saturday night. Lt.-Col. "M. S. Falla, D. 5.0., who commanded the brigade during the concluding stages of the Great War, presided over a large attendance, and tributes were paid to his predecessor Lt.Col. F. B. Sykes, D. 5.0., of the Imperial Army. Cheers were given for “Bill” Sykes, as he was popularly known by all who served under him, and the gathering, amid applause, decided to despatch a cablegram to him at the British War Office, telling him of the brigade’s first re-union and conveying their best wishes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 7
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