COMBAT GROUP
Commander Appointed
CN.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND. April 23.
The first move to establish the Army’s combat brigade group in Papakura camp, is announced with the posting of an officer to take command.
He is Lieutenant-Colonel D. J. Aitken, an infantry officer, who has relinquished his position as director of training at Army Headquarters, and has been promoted temporary colonel to command the group. He will take up the new position on May 1. Educated at Timaru Boys’ High School, Colonel Aitken joined the Army in 1939. He served in the Middle East, and was commissioned in December, 1941, serving with the Long-Range Desert Group throughout the war. He commanded the 2nd Battalion in Malaysia for two years.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 3
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