ANTI-TANK UNIT
FORMED BV NEW ZEALANDERS IN BRITAIN GOING INTO CAMP NEXT WEEK. FORMER LABOUR MEMBER IN RANKS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON. October 19. A New Zealand anti-tank unit, numbering 140, is going into camp “somewhere in England” on October 26 under the command of Major C. J. Duff, who before the war was a New Zealand liaison officer with the War Office. The officers include Lieutenants J. H. Hall Kenny. B. B. Patterson and E. Blow and the rankers include Mr Ormond Wilson, former Labour Member for Manawatu. The unit will train separately, but it attached to a British training centre for administration purposes. Uniforms and equipment are being drawn from the British Ordnance, consequently there is no distinctive headgear.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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126ANTI-TANK UNIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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