ARMY PARTY EXCHANGE
Australia And New Zealand
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 30.
The Minister of Defence i ‘Mr Eyre) announced today | hat the New Zealand and ; Australian armies would conduct an exchange visit of 14 days in August-September this year similar to that conducted early in 1962. One R.A.A.F. Cl3O Hercules aircraft and one R.N.Z.A.F. DC6 will be used to move the troops. Each party will be about 140 strong. The troops will leave their homelands on August 24 and 25 and will return on September 7 and 8.
The Australian party will oe basically a reduced infantry company from the 2nd Battalion. Royal Australian Regiment, stationed in Brisbane, but will include 20 members of the Citizen Military Forces from the southern States. The company will take part in subunit level training with the 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Regiment, during its stay in New Zealand.
The New Zealand party, which will include 20 territorials, will be in Queensland for the duration of its stay. It will include engineers, a transport platoon and a workshop detachment, and will join Australian Regular Army and Citizen Military Forces troops in a major administrative exercise to be conducted n the Bundaiberg area.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30145, 31 May 1963, Page 12
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