AN INVESTITURE AT THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 7

AN INVESTITURE AT THE FRONT

■NEW ZEALAND COMMANDER HONOUBED BY THE KING. (Special Dispatch from the New Zealand Official War Correspondent.) August 9. His Majesty the King to-day held an investiture at the , front, at which the New Zealand commander received his K.C.B. New Zealiinders and Americans Fast Friends. . August 10. Forborne time past we have been eeeing a great deal of our American friends, officers being attached to our division for training and men for experience. Recently two of the more adventurous who were out on patrol with some of our men came to grips with the Germans, and ono was killed, but before he fell lie had bayoneted three Germane.-. Subsequently another of our patrols found his body, minus his tunic. The tunic had been taken, no doubt, for identification by the enemy. Already the Americans and New Zealanders "are as brothers. One big American, who was having hie first experience of the muddy front-line trenches, when asked for bis opinion of our men, said with heartiness: "The Noo Zealanders will do me!" Tine, tall, well sot-up men these chaps were, and very keen to learn. New Zealand officers told me that whenever they heard there were Prussians near thein they wero keen to get out and have a go at them.