ON ARMISTICE DAY
NEW ZEALAND TROOPS IN BRITAIN UNITS MAKE THEIR OWN ARRANGEMENTS. HUSH ON RIFLE RANGE. (From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Britain). BRITAIN, November 11. New Zealand troops in England observed their first Armistice Day overseas by pausing in their training for two minutes' silence at eleven o'clock on this grey and chilly forenoon. In compliance with the general order against concentrations of people, units made their own arrangements and the occasion gained in solemnity through being an abrupt turning aside from the varied forms of training for another war. One infantry battalion was on a rifle range, where the sudden hush was most marked. Several companies halted on the road in the course of a route march. Another group interrupted rifle drill and stood with arms at the Present throughout the silence.
At the Infantry Brigade headquarters, the full brigade band played the Last Pest as a signal for silence and the cavalry reveille to end it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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166ON ARMISTICE DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1940, Page 6
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