FINE BATTERY
NEW ZEALAND UNIT IN LIBYA RECORD OF SUCCESSES . IN BATTLE. AFTER ONLY TWO MONTHS’ TRAINING. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CAIRO, December 7. One New Zealand battery of 18pounders has a proud and remarkable record of success. Two months ago the personnel of the battery were infantry reinforcements, but in that brief two months, with intensive training, they were turned into gunners. Hidden in an excellent position around the Sidi Rezegh sector, the battery, over open sights, started off the day by cleaning out a German observation post. They saw an observer flung in the air as their shells crashed on top. Next they located and destroyed four German field guns and they followed this up by setting on fire a moving enemy tank. Six enemy machine-gun nests then came under the fire of the New Zealand battery and were destroyed. The next fask of the battery was to lay down a barrage on advancing German infantry. This they did with great force and effect. An oured car, two heavy infantry and three other tanks were in succession to complete the amazing record of this New Zealand battery. AH their firing was over open sights.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 6
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