King Visited N.Z. General Hospital
(Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, June 24. will unquestionably help Germany in For the first time srnco ho 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 i our most forward general hospital, in ! which many hundreds of wounded men i from the Eighth Army’s Tunisian j battles have been attended in recent months. The hospital stands on brown, , sun-baked fields at the edge ot (Tripoli’s orchard district. I After speaking briefly with Colonel Gower, commanding officer at the hosi pital, the King drove slowly along the road through cheering lines of New Zealand sisters, nurses, other members of the staff and some of the hospital patients.
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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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