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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.

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Kāinga > Monty Claude Fairbrother

Monty Claude Fairbrother

Serial No: 
7192
Surname: 
Fairbrother
Forename(s): 
Monty Claude
Next of kin on enlistment: 
Mrs Helen Constance Fairbrother (wife), Te Kawa, Te Awamutu, New Zealand
Rank: 
Brigadier
Address on enlistment: 
C/o P.O. Box 61, Invercargill, New Zealand
Date of death: 
Feb-97
Place of death: 
New Zealand
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Notes: 

This article appeared in the April 1990 NZ 28 Maori Battalion Golden Jubilee Reunion booklet.   

7th C.O. - FAIRBROTHER, M.C. (Monty), CBE, DSO, ED, MID

Born Carterton, 21st September 1907. Brigade Major of 5th Brigade during some of its toughest fighting June 1942 - April 1943 - was successively C.O. of 21, 23 and 28 Battalions April - December 1943, when after leading the Maori Battalion in its first action in Italy, he was ordered out of the line to catch a furlough draft bound for New Zealand. Monty had been an original of 20 Battalion. He was C.O. of 26 Battalion when hostilities ended.

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