AS GOOD AS MEN OF 1914-18
Jdiers Now Overseas ie boys of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. are ... good as any of us were,” said S J. H. Whyte, D. 5.0., D.C.M., oposing the toast of the 2nd ; F. at the annual reunion in Welj' n on 11th July at., the Anzac ited Division Association. Colonel t e said that he heard disparaging r k S comparing the present expediry force with the first. “We ■got to take it,” he said. “We '"bigger stomachs, but they have be same hearts and we have to oud of them. If they make conwith the Italians ice-cream will East” . ev had to remember that every overseas was a volunteer. They seen them training and marching, > they not proud of them, their sons he younger generation taking their ' ■ ntioning the fact that Colonel A. ’ilder. a mounted officer in the p. War, was to command an infanattalion in the present war, Colonel ■e said that the mounted soldier a versatile man and anyone who -away this time would do the s well on foot as he did mounted Great War. ?geant J. Brown, R.N.Z.A.F., reling. said that the 2nd N.Z.E.F. 1 do its best to uphold the tradi- ■ established by the .men of 1914-18, J fough in a war which they ht would end wars. !i i-
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 32, 19 July 1940, Page 7
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