STORY OF ANZACS.
EARLY GALLIPOLI DAYS RECALLED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyr. ght.) LONDON, February 22. “Early in the summer of 1916 I was asked to take 50 to 100 Anzacs for instruction in a Lewis gun school,” writes Brigadier-General C. D. B. S. Baker-Carr, in “From Chauffeur to Brigadier,” which has just been published. “It was hinted that refusal would not be misunderstood. Though fine fighters, the Australians were not always the most tractable in the back areas. They forcibly released their comrades at Etaples and burned down the guardroom. I told the first Australian squad that the whole lot would be returned straight away if a single complaint was made about them. It was the first of many Australian classes, and there was not a single complaint.”
General Baker-Carr relates that when the Australians visited Paris Plage they dropped from a bridge into the river two military policemen who were demanding a special pass to cross, which the troopers did not possess.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18501, 24 February 1930, Page 2
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164STORY OF ANZACS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18501, 24 February 1930, Page 2
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