BRITISH ARMY
IN 1914 AND AT PRESENT DAY. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE i COMPARISONS. I Discussing the successful transport to Franco of the British Expeditionary Force of 158.000 mon. without a single casualty and in complete freedom from enemy attack, the "Manchester Guardian" draws some comparisons:— "Tlie Army lias been enabled to lake up its positions with that orderliness which sufficient, time can give. In the last war we were pressed: the Expeditionary Force began to cross on August 9 and fired its first, shots against a Gorman picket near Mons on August 22. The War Minister made some comparisons between this force and the one of twenty-five years ago. Then more titan half the Army were infantrymen with two machine-guns to a battalion: now the infantry make only one-fifth of the total and each battalion has fifty Bron guns and sixteen anti-tank rifles. For 800 mechanised vehicles there are now 25.000. some of them tanks as heavy as fifteen tons. It is a force not only larger in numbers but immensely richer in machines of war.''
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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175BRITISH ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 6
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