THE ARAWA ARRIVES
LAST LARGE PARTY OF SERVICEMEN FEW SOLDIERS LEFT IN ITALY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 4. “A pleasure cruise” was how the servicemen who arrived from the United Kingdom and the Middle East on the Arawa to-day described the passage. The draft comprised 188 Army and Navy personnel and 13 dependants and 44 R.N.Z.A.F. personnel from England. The ship also carried 242 civilian passengers who embarked at Melbourne.
The Dominion troops are the last large party of returning service personnel.
Fewer, than a dozen New Zealand troops now remain in Italy attached to rear headquarters at Caserta to attend to any “washing-up” duties. A few personnel of the graves concentration and graves registration unit remain in Italy.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 April 1946, Page 6
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