N.Z. TELEGRAPHISTS AT MADAGASCAR
(Rec. 6.30 -p.m.) LONDON, August 12. Three New Zealand telegraphists who followed the course of the occupation of Courier Bay and Diego Suarez by the wireless communications they handled are now on leave in London. They are I. R. Forester (Wanganui), J. F. Ingham (Petone)' and L. A. Powell (Christchurch).
“We spent three days each in Courier Bay and Diego Suarez,” said Forester. “We arrived in the bay in bright moonlight just after midnight in a ship which put landing-parties ashore, but, being busy handling wireless communications between ship and shore we did not see any action, except when two French aeroplanes machine-gunned the beaches. Later we spent three weeks at Port Elizabeth, where we found New Zealanders were most popular.” Forester, Ingham and Powell were trained for co-operating with commandos.
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Southland Times, Issue 24822, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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