“ALAMEIN DAY”
COMMEMORATION OF VICTORY (P.A.) DUNEDIN, July 3.
October 23, the date of the Battle of Alamein when the Allied forces first broke Marshal Rommel’s advance and turned the German divisions back across Egypt, will be known in New Zealand as Alamein Day. Proposals from the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association’s Dominion executive have been submitted to the Governor-General (Sir Bernard Freyberg), who has accorded them his full approval and promised his support. Reporting by letter to branches that the Dominion executive had completed negotiations with his Excellency and gained his permission to establish Alamein Day as a day of commemoration, Mr Kenneth Melvin, Dominion president of the association said: “It is important to make this a day of rejoicing. Alamein was a great victory and should be celebrated as such.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25227, 4 July 1947, Page 9
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