SIR H. M. WILSON
IN COMMAND OF BRITISH FORCES FINE RECORD IN EGYPT & LIBYA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. It is officially announced that Lieu-tenant-General Sir H. M. Wilson is in command of the British troops in Greece, under the direction of General Papagos, Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Army. Sir H. M. Wilson became G.O.C. of the British troops in Egypt in 1939. In that position he was responsible for the defence of the Western Desert frontier during the difficult months after the collapse of France and the. entry of Italy into the war. From the beginning of December onwards, he directed the operations which carried the British front to Benghazi and beyond. In addition to announcing contact betv/een the British and German forces in Greece and describing the situation in Western Macedonia, a communique states: “Further to the west, the German forces have reached Yannitsa and Monastic. In Southern Yugoslavia, resistance to the German advance is stiffening.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 6
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