"BREAKING UP" ON THE WEST FRONT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 5

"BREAKING UP" ON THE WEST FRONT

GOOD-BYE TO TRUSTED STEEDS. (Special from the New Zealand War Correspondent.)

t February 27. There ie a certain sadness about the breaking-up of the New Zealand Division that even the gayest can scarcely escape. One by one old friends have been leaving.us, and some of these who. had comn safely through years of battle, we shall know no more. Now our regiments are holding thair break-up dinners. These are convivial to a degree, but all the same they conjure up 6ad memories as well as sweet. To-day there is only one South Island battalion; to-morrow there will be only one Rifle Brigade Battalion; nnd next day but one North Island battalion. Our general and all our infantry brigadiers but ono havn gone. The break-up of unite is, I •ihink, mostly felt by the drafts as they head for home. The parting with the horses, too, is at times quite affecting. All the'Srd Artillery Brigade who were in tho vicinity went to have a last look at old "Rasty," the only ono of their horses who had gone through the campaign from start to finish. One driver in the Divisional Train had very moist eyes as he saw a fine pair of draughts he had driven for years put aboard the departing train. To-morrow the division will be without a horae.,