12,000-Mile Airlift
(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON, October 31. Seven hundred troops of the United Kingdom Strategic Reserve a<nd aircraft of the RAF. Transport Command will take part next week in the longest military air-lift ever undertaken by British forces. On Monday, the Royal Ulster Rifles, an infantry battalion. and the Gurkha Brigade of the Strategic Reserve will leave Lyneham. Wiltshire. for the RAAF base at Williamitown, New South Wales. In Australia the troops will exercise with the Australian Army and return to Britain for Christmas. The flight from Lyneham to Williamitown will take 40 hours. The Ministry of Aviation is taking advantage of the movement to fly 30 defence and science correspondents from newspapers to Australia. They will be shown the Woomera missile range and the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric scheme.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30277, 1 November 1963, Page 13
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