N.Z. DIVISION
! ■■■ ■ .;,:., . ♦ TRIBUTE r COUNTLESS VICTORIES i —'•■- ■ ■ ■ r' ■ ).■-,..■:;. , The following 'extract from Frencli '. 'AflijOQrders'-ia published in Now Zen- ; land General Orders:— i "Minister's Office, Pari?, Nov. 28, 1919. ';. £Th - of tlio Council of thu [ . Ministry of War mentions: in Army Orj. ; ders"the.!nlurie. of the following English \ officer^—"' "■' .' I' "Mjtjor-General Sir A. H. Russell,. N.Z. .; v-'-''-DivisionY'.' ' '•' " '■''[. '' '"Has'-led'to' ! countles3 victories ft'splon-: did division whoso exploits have not been ' equalled, and whose reputation was such ; that on-(ho arrival of the division on i;' the Somme-battleiield during the critical 1.; days,.of March, 1918, the. departure of ';'; the inhabitants was stopped immediately. • .•■,••■- :'■ "The division covered itself with fresh -..'■ glory during the lxittles of the Ancro a | lavSanibro,- at Puisieux au Mont, 13ai piiime, Crevecoeur, and Le Quesnoy." ; ''For and by the.order of the President cf : the Council, of the Ministry of Wnr. "Boekcr, Colonel, Adjutant-General to •;'' the Cabinet."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 6
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143N.Z. DIVISION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 6
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