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GENERAL FREYBERG

NARROW ESCAPE FROM FURTHER INJURY. NOW IN HOSPITAL AT CAIRO. (Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, July 4. When the 21st German Panzer Division’s attacks against the New Zealanders were at their height south of Mersa Matruh on Saturday afternoon, the G.0.C., Lieutenant-General Frey- ■ *1 berg, was wounded by shrapnel in the neck. After the wound had been dressed, he was lying in a slit-trench surrounded by an ambulance screen. He was talking to his A.D.C., Lieutenant J. L. G/ffiths, the All Black, when another shell burst nearby, and the concussion flung Griffiths to the ground, covering him with stones and sand. The general escaped further injury, and Griffiths was unhurt. General Freyberg was evacuated by ambulance to a desert aerodrome and flown by air ambulance to Caird. He was then driven to the New Zealand base hospital. He was able to walk from the car into the hospital.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 3

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GENERAL FREYBERG Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 3

GENERAL FREYBERG Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1942, Page 3

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