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70 years ago this month

For most of June the Battalion are at Arce, north-west of Cassino. CO Lt-Col Young is keeping them occupied and out of mischief. The American’s have occupied Rome. Read the war diary for June 1944 here.

Kāinga > Jack Baker, MC and bar

Jack Baker, MC and bar

Major Jack Baker MC and bar, Mentioned in Dispatches – 'a Tiger tank, a bazooka and a grenade earned him his. He couldn't shake the army habit, went to Japan with J-Force and spent nine years in the regular Army.'

In Nga Tama Toa, p.337, historian Monty Soutar describes the action in which Baker earned a bar to his Military Cross (MC), clearing a path through a minefield in Italy.

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Image and caption from April 1984 The Battalion Remembers booklet, p. 30.
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