N.Z. DIVISION.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 9, 14 May 1920, Page 13

N.Z. DIVISION.

A FRENCH TRIBUTE. The following extract from French Army Orders is published in New Zealand General Orders : — "Monsters" Office, Paris, November 28, 1919. "The President of the Council of the Ministry of War mentions in Army Orders the name of the following F>nglis.V ofScer : — "Major-General Sir A. H. Russell, N.Z. Division. "Has led to countless vktories a splendid division whose exploits have not been equalled, and whose reputa-tion was snch that on the arrivai of the division on the Somme battlefield during the critical days of March, 1918, the departure of the inhabitants was stopped imemdiately. The division covered itself witli fresh glory during the battles of the Ancre a la Sambre, at Prusieux au Mont, Bapaume, Crevecoeur, and Le Quesnoy." "For and by the order of the President of the Council of the Ministry of War. "Beeker, Colonel, Adjutant-General to the Cabinet."