“BACKS TO THE WALL”
ORIGINAL DRAFT OF HAIC'S FAMOUS ORDER. LODGED IN BRITISH MUSEUM. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 17. By a bequest of the late Sir Philip Sassoon the British Museum, which already possessed Lord Haig’s map of the Western Front on September 25, 1918, has now acquired another striking memento of the Great War. It is Earl Haig’s autograph draft of his famous "Back to the Wall" order of April 11, 1918. This document, which was issued at a moment of extreme national danger from the enemy, which Britain is again facing today is written in a firm hand in five paragraphs of exhortation to all ranks of the British Forces in France. Its concluding passage is: “Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of you must fight to the end. The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind alike depend upon the conduct of each one of you at this critical moment."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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180“BACKS TO THE WALL” Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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