VISIT TO N.Z.E.F. HOSPITAL
(N.Z.E.F. Official News Service.) •CAIRO, June 24. Fox- the first time since he saw the second contingent training in England three years ago, the King this week visited a unit of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Only a few miles from where Mr. Churchill spoke to the New Zealand Division near Tripoli, his Majesty saw our most forward general hospital, in which | many hundreds of wounded men from the Eighth Army's Tunisian battles have been attended in recent months. The hospital stands on brown, sunbaked, fields at the edge of Tripoli's orchard district. After speaking briefly with Colonel Gower, commanding officer of the hospital, the King drove slowly along the road through cheering lines of New Zealand sisters and nurses, and other members of the staff, and some of the patients. In a long day of visiting and inspecting units of the Eighth Army Desert Air Force, the King met representatives of all the Dominions. This was the second visit a member of the Royal Family has made to New Zealanders in the Middle East. Early last year the Duke of Gloucester inspected formations of the Division in Syria, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 150, 26 June 1943, Page 5
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