GALLANT PART IN NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1943, Page 3

GALLANT PART IN NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Described by General Freyberg

TRIBUTE TO MAGNIFICENT QUALITIES AND GREAT WORK

OF ALL RANKS UNDER HIS COMMAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day

“At the conclusion of this North African campaign 1. want to place on record the deep admiration I feel tor the magnificent qualities and the great work done by all ranks under my command,” states Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, in a report which has been received by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, on the operations of the New Zealand Division. “We have been fighting continuously for almost a year, battle after battle, with little respite, on hard rations and short supplies of indifferent water,” General Freyberg says. “The endurance and courage of all ranks under conditions of great discomfort and peril have been beyond praise, and their resource, good humour and wisdom have made them ideal material’ for a fast-moving, hard-hitting force such as ours. The division has never faltered or failed in any of the difficult and hazardous missions it has been set, and no one realises as 1 do how much it has achieved. No commander has been better served. ’ ’