MEN BEHIND THE GUNS.
SIR W. BIRDWOOD’S TRIBUTE. WINNERS OF THE GREAT WAR. LONDON, July 16.—General Sir William Birdwood, speaking at a Colonial Institute luncheon in his honour, said he always put full and proper value on “ the man behind the gun”—Tommy Atkins and Jack Tar at Home, the Digger in Australia and Now Zealand, and the Sowar and Sepoy in India. As long as .he lived, he said, he would see in his mind’s eye the sturdy and brave British soldier in France and the dauntless Anzacs storming and holding the heights of Gallipoli. These men had won the war. It was not too much to h’ope that the same men, in commerce and industry, would win the peace. The Duke of Connaught, who presided, paid a tribute to General Birdwood, and described him as a British soldier,, a gentleman, and a friend of tie Empire.
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Wairarapa Age, 18 July 1925, Page 5
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