Major-General J. E. DUIGAN’S
New Zealand General Staff, said, in an address to men of the Second Echelon in training at Burnham. He asked them to remember, wherever they would be, that they were New Zealanders. The men from New Zealand in the last war left behind them a good name. That was a great thing. The men of the Second Expeditionary Force would be received with open arms everywhere, and he was sure they would not let New Zealand down in their behaviour nor in their ability to fight. “And this is going to be tough before we are out of it’ ’said Major-General ' Duigan. “How long it will last no man can say. I know New Zealanders and the men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. You are the same stock as those who fought at the River Plate. Captain Parry said there: ‘We are for it,’ and the New Zealanders replied ‘We can take it.’ I am also sure that you can take it. Good-bye and good luck, and don’t forget, men, that you are / ■ ■ New Zealanders.”
Address to Men of 2nd Echelon at Burnham STERN TASK AHEAD “I feel sure that, with the other parts of the Echelon, General Freyberg will be proud of you,” MajorGeneral J. E. Duigan, Chief of the
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 22, 10 May 1940, Page 2
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