JUNGLE COURSE FOR DOCTORS
It eek At Burnham Instead Of Camp A special jungle indoctrination course is being held at Burnham Military Camp for medical corps territorials who will be unable to attend their units’ annual camps next February. Thirty officers and other ranks are taking part in the course which is for one week. If the weather is suitable, three days* training in bush near Oxford is planned.
The men on the course include a group of five from the 2nd Field Ambulance. New Plymouth. The rest are South Islanders. The officer commanding the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps depot at Burnham (Major G. W. Stanley) and an Australian infantry jungle warfare instructor. Major T. H. Wilson, are conducting the course.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 5
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