The Fanion Presentation Party consisting of representatives of the New Zealand Cyclists Battalion

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NameThe Fanion Presentation Party consisting of representatives of the New Zealand Cyclists Battalion

ProductionUnknown; photographer; 28 July 1919

Classificationcard photographs

Materialsphotographic paper, cardboard

Registration NumberCA000316/002/0001

Overview

The NewZealandCyclists Battalion was in July and August, 1918, with the Corps in the Champagne District, wherethey gained glory with theirworkassociated with the Fifth French Army under General A. Berthelot.

The Maire and Municipality of the the town of Epernay (Department of the Marne) wishing to signalise the victory of the Second Battle of the Marne which, by turning the enemy back when within a few kilometers of the town saved Epernay and adjoining towns from devastation from the enemy, presented through General BerthelotNew Zealand Cyclists Corps and several of the French units who were in action at that time, fanions or banners to commemorate the victory.

See more information in Regimental History of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in The Great War 1914-1918at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre