GALLIPOLI LANDING

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1931, Page 5

GALLIPOLI LANDING

TRIBUTE TO BRITISH ARMY.

GENERAL GOURAUD’S PRAISE.

London, May 27. Noted Gallipoli figures at the British Lenon Conference were Sir lan Hamilton and General Henri Gourand, who, after being wounded at the Dardanelles, commanded the Fourth French Army. Delegates greeted the latter with the Marseillaise. His only misfortune, according to Sir lan Hamilton, was when a shell blew up 23,000 bottles of claret during the war. . General Gouraud is staying with Earl Jellicoe, who, in a presidential speech, paid a tribute to the Legion’s Employment Bureau, which had filled 10,000 jobs and enabled 1500 men to migrate last Cheers for himself, the Duchess and the baby greeted the Duke of York, who extolled the activities of the legion and mentioned that its decennary would be fittingly celebrated on July 1. The Prince of Wales sent a letter suggesting that the Poppy Day fund give £20,000 a year to the legion’s pension fund. . . i General Gouraud recalled the glories or the Gallipoli landing and pointed out re<rardin <T the absence of a tribute to the British Army in General Foch’s memoirs that this book did not even compliment Foch’s own staff. Nevertheless, the Generalissimo often verbally praised the British soldiers. _____