ANZACS IN FRANCE
BRIGADIER'S MEMORIES
(Received 22nd February, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 21st February.
"In the early summer of 1916 I was asked to take fifty to one hundred Anzacs for instruction in the Lewis gun school," writes BrigadierGeneral Baker-Carr, in "From Chauffeur to Brigadier," which is now being published. "It was hinted th,at a refusal would not be misunderstood. Though fine fighters, the Australians were not always most tractable in the back areas. , They forcibly released their comrades at Etaples and burned down the guard room. I told the first Australian squad that the whole lot would be returned straight away, if a single complaint was made about them. It was the first of many Australian classes and there was not a single complaint." The General relates that when the Australians visited Paris they dropped from a bridge into tho river two military poli'eemen who were demanding a special pass to cross, which troopers did not possess.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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157ANZACS IN FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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