N.Z. PARATROOPER IN EGYPT
OFFICER FROM CHRISTCHURCH The New Zealand paratroop officer reported in “The Press" yesterday to have flown in a Royal Air Force bomber during a raid on Martuba, in Libya, is Captain Edgar Hargreaves, son of Mr and Mrs E. H. Hargreaves, of Christchurch. An officer in the Bth Hussars, Captain Hargreaves was one
CAPTAIN E. HARGREAVES of the first to volunteer for service with the parachute troops, and is among the few New Zealanders in this specialised force. Captain Hargreaves is attached to the British Military Mission in Egypt, and has been serving in the Middle East for nearly nine months. He has been in the British Army for nearly four years, except for a brief period when he was attached to the New Zealand Divisional Cavalry. An old boy of St. Andrew’s College. Captain Hargreaves joined the Royal Tank Corps, now the Royal Armoured Corps, with the rank of second-lieutenant, in 1938. He was on furlough in New Zealand when the war broke out, and was attached to the Divisional Cavalry until he was able to rejoin his regiment.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23805, 26 November 1942, Page 6
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