SERVICE IN MADAGASCAR
NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAPHISTS (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, August 12. Three New Zealand telegraphists followed the course of the occupation of Courier Bay and Diego Suarez by the wireless communications they handled are now on leave in London. They are I. R. Forester, Wanganui, J. F. Ingham, Petone, and L. A. Powell, Christchurch. Forester said: “We spent three days each at Courier Bay and Diego Suarez. We arrived in the bay in bright moonlight just after midnight in a ship which put landing parties ashore, but being busy handling' wireless communications between ship and shore and ship and ship we did not see any of the action except when two French aeroplanes machine-gunned the beaches. Later, we spent three weeks in Port Elizabeth, where we found the New Zealanders most popular.”
Forester, Ingham and Powell are trained for co-operating with commandos.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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