N.Z. Telegraphists Were At Madagascar
(Rec. 2 p.m.) (Special) LONDON, Aug. 12. Three New Zealand telegraphists, who followed the course of the occupation of Courier Bay and Diego Suarez by the wireless communications they handled, are now on leave in London.
They are I. R. Forester (Wanganui), J. F. Ingham (Petone) and L. A. Powell (Christchurch). Forester said: “We spent three days each at Courier Bay and Diego Suarez. We arrived in the bay in bright moonlight just alter midnight in a ship which put landing parties ashore, but. being busy handling' wireless communications between shin and shore and ship and ship, we did not see any action except when two French aeroplanes machine-gunned the beaches. "Later, we spent three weeks at Port Elizabeth, wher ewe found the New Zealanders were most pooular.” Forester, Ingham and Powell trained for co-operating with commandos.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1942, Page 4
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