HUGE GUNS IN DESERT
DEATH OF MAJOR GRIGG (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday "We had a pretty quiet time until November 27, when 'Jerry' attacked 'us early in the morning with a strong force of tanks and the biggest field guns I have ever seen," says LanceBombardier Geoff. East, in a letter, dated December 29, to his mother, Mrs. C. East, of New Plymouth. , The letter says the guns were afterward discovered to be big • 105 millimetres, and they looked as if they had been borrowed from a battleship. "The engagement lasted only an hour, but in that time four of our guns were knocked out and most of the crews killed." Lance-Bombardier East mentions a friend who was on a gun with Major A. N. Grigg. "A Jerry shell landed right on top of them," he writes. "Altogether we had about 60 killed and 60 wounded in that scrap."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24194, 9 February 1942, Page 6
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