THE FIRST SHOT
FIRED IN WESTERN DESERT ' PATROL’S ENCOUNTER The first shot fired 1 by n New Zealand soldier in the Western Desert campaign and the first shot to be fired by the 2nd N.Z.E.F. came from the revolver of Lieut.-Colonel A. R. Cockerell, D.S.O. This Was revealed by him at a social function in Invercargill. When Mussolini entered the war in 1940 Lieut.-Colonel Cockerell went out on patrol in the desert with two North Island battalions and the 4th Reserve Motor Transport. A wandering Senussi, one of the nomadic tribe who often aided the enemy, attracted his attention. and Lieut.-Colonel Cockerell fired a warning shot at him.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32418, 14 April 1944, Page 6
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108THE FIRST SHOT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32418, 14 April 1944, Page 6
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