NEW ZEALAND TROOPS.
WHERE THEY WILL FIGHT. • PROBABLE COMPANIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, January 5. It is stated that the New Zealand troops will probably remain in Egypt until Marcli or even April, and will then proceed to the front direct. One of the difficulties in sending them to the front lies in the fact that they require to be reinforced in numbers to make suitable unit for the field. The whole British force will be in properly standardised divisions. The New Zealandcrs will only make about half a division in numbers, and consequently they will
liiivo to go with some other force. The force, to which they are to be allied, is. I understand, the 6th division, which covered itself with glory in the early operations in the north of Belgium, protecting the retreat from Antwerp and holding off the German advance for sonic days until French got his armies from the Aisne into their new positions at Lai Ba\ssee and n.t Ypres. In these operations they were literally decimated and their commander, Sir Henry Rawlinson, was sent back to England to reorganise the division, which consisted chiefly of Royal Marines and the Royal Naval Division, partly reservists and partly men newly enlisted for the war. The army to which the fitli Division belongs is not disclosed in the skeleton organisation of the new armies, which lias been published, but probably it is Sir Horace Smith-Dome's command, ihe Second Army. If this proves to be correct, New Zealand may feel gratified. Her men will he serving under perhaps the. most brilliant of our generals in the field, alongside the troops which have borne with untarnished success the fiercest fighting the British Army has ever seen. And they will have as companions to make up their own division, the Royal Naval Division, to which the best class of Knglish volunteers have flocked both before and after Antwerp.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 6
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317NEW ZEALAND TROOPS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 6
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