ALLENBY PRIZES
AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS. (N.Z.E.F. Official News Service). CAIRO, April 6. Allenby Prizes, the highest awards made to officer cadets for general excellence in the Middle East 0.C.T.U., have been awarded to New Zealanders in the last two courses. They are now second lieutenants —J. R. Arnold, of Lyttelton, and R. G. Sloan, London, both of the N.Z.A.S.C. Lieutenant Arnold joined with the First Echelon, and Lieutenant-‘Sloan, who has lived in Britain since he was 10 years of age, served with the New’ Zealand anti-tank battery formed in England till the Libyan campaign. A previous winner of the award, then known as the Wavell Prize, was an Auckland All Black, Second-Lieu-tenant Roger Anderson, who was killed in action early in the Libyan campaign.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 2
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125ALLENBY PRIZES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1942, Page 2
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