ARMISTICE DAY
NeAv Zealand Troops In England
(From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Britain.) BRITAIN, November 11. New Zealand t roups in England observed their first Armistice Day overseas by pausing in their training for the two minutes’ silence at 11 o clock this grey, chilly forenoon. , Iu compliance with the general order against concentrations of people, the units made their own arrangements and the occasion gained iu solemnity through being an abrupt turning aside from the varied forms of training for another war., One infantry battalion was on a rille range, where the sudden hush was most, marked. Several companies halted on the road during a route march. Anol her group interrupted their rifle drill, and stood will) arms at lhe present, throughout the silence. At Infantry Brigade headquarters the full brigade baud played “Last Post” as a signal for the beginning of the silence and ‘■Reveille” io end it.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 11
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157ARMISTICE DAY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 11
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