GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S MESSAGE
ON LEAVING ANZAC INTERESTING ARMY ORDER
The following interesting "special Army Corps order," issued by General Birdwood, commanding .the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and dated December 1, 1915, was communicated to a reporter yesterday bv the Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. Allen):— • ' . ' ' "I cannot tell you how really sorry I am t-o be leaving Anzac, as I have t-o do in shifting over to. army headquarters. "I liave. not, however, any intention of saying good-bye to' any- ■ one, for I trust it is by no means good-bye, as I still hope and intend to see as much of all my old friends in the Army Corps as I possibly can do. "Nor am I going to express my thanks to officers and men, even if I could find words to do so. I feel it would only be presumption on my part, for it is for the British Empire to do that. I well know it will do so. .. "My one wish is to be able to : finish this war alongside of all my old comrades of Anzac, having begun it together close on one year ago now in Egypt. I sincerely trust that many of lis may be spar-, ed to_ see it through, together, when the time comes to make an end of our German enemies, though that day may be yet far distant."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 6
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232GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S MESSAGE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 6
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