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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.

Home > Operation order - December 5, 1941

Operation order - December 5, 1941

This operation order details the Māori Battalion raiding patrol into the lower Sollum on December 5, 1941.

At the time the Māori Battalion were camped at the Sollum Barracks and conducting a number of raids on Lower Sollum.  For more detail on the Battalion's activities see the Dececmber 1941 diary.

 

 

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Ref:  28 NZ (Māori) Battalion Diary, WAII 1 1664 DA 68/1/24, p.62, appendix D3.
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Submitted by mbadmin on Tue, 06/12/2011 - 11:29
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