TROOPS IN EGYPT
GREETINGS EXCHANGED The following cable message was received by tho Governor-General of the Commonwealth from General Birdwood, Commanding the Australian and New Zealand Forces in Egypt:— "Both Australian, and New Zealand Contingents now in Egypt send Your Excellency and your Ministers ' best good wishes for' the New Year." To this the Governor-General replied: "I thank you and your command for your good wishes, which I heartily reciprocate. I congratulate you on being in command! of so fine's, body of troops. Send my greetings to General Bridges, who I hope received my Christmas cable message of good wishes." , . General Birdwood replied as follow:— "I thank Your Excellency for kind congratulations. I so fully appreciate the command- of a .body of men who are second to none in the British Empire."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2349, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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132TROOPS IN EGYPT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2349, 4 January 1915, Page 5
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