INCIDENT IN GREECE
ATTACK THAT DID NOT COME How Brigadier R. Miles and Brigadier (now Major-general) E. Puttick contested the right to remain behind when insufficient ships were available to tEke them off during the Greece evacuation was told by the Prime Minister. Mr P. Fraser. at the civic reception in Auckland o.n Saturday. Owing to the impossibility of going south of the Corinth canal, two brigades were ordered to the east beaches, Mr Fraser said, but found ships only for one. Eventually it was decided that Brigadier Puttick, who had been ordered there after Brigadier Miles. should remain. He deployed his troops and waited for the enemy tanks to attack, but for some reason, probably because they over-estimated the strength of the New Zee landers, the tanks remained a few hundred yards away and next night Brigadier Puttick's force also was evacuated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 13
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