DEFENCE OF DARWIN
MOBILE FORCE UNDER ORDERS. LEAVING SYDNEY NEXT MONTH. Gy Tr-iegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Darwin mobile force has been ordered to embark at Sydney for Darwin on Marcii 9. This is almost two months earlier than was expected, although no date of departure had been officially announced. The force, which comprises 250 men, will embark on the ships Montoro and Marella. It will be the first occasion since the Great War that such a body -:f troops has left Sydhey by sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 8
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91DEFENCE OF DARWIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1939, Page 8
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