RAID ON ITALIANS
NEW ZEALANDER'S PART (X.Z.E.F. Official News Service) An officer from Cambridge, Captain T. C. Wallace, of the 2nd New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment, took part in a night raid recently made by e party of British troops against Italian positions on the Libyan frontier. Information respecting the enemy was urgently required and the raid was made in order to secure a prisoner.
Captain Wallace, who left New Zealand with the First Kchelon and before volunteering for' the Expeditionary force was an officer of the Waikato Mounted Rifles, was attached at the time to the British regiment given the task. He persuade'd the battalion commander to let him make one of the party.
.\lioiit 20 Italians wore found laying *j n nes on the edge of a trench. The "ntish pnrtv attacked. resistance was ov fronnie without loss and several rir]?oners were captured. On the way to their own/positions the raiders "tp under fire from an enemy maohine- ""»• but they regained in safety a cap . . v liar] previously made in the Italian -.'re and won haek to their battalion. )' "'as Inter learned that much valuable '"/■rmation was secured from the Prisoners.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23791, 19 October 1940, Page 13
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193RAID ON ITALIANS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23791, 19 October 1940, Page 13
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