SUPERB HEROISM
NINE MAORI SOLDIERS TUNISIAN HEIGHT STORMED RUGBY. Apl. 28. The men who stormed and captured the height of Takrouna and held it firmly against counter-attacks were the infantry from a New Zealand brigade, stales a commentator, who adds that Indians took part in fighting at Jebel Garci, west of Takrouna. In the first case it was a group of nine* Maoris who finally fought their way through to the top after the lower part of the hill had been won by hard, bitter fighting. Four of them took a rough uncertain pathway round the side of the height, and the other five, led by a sergeant, scaled the sheer cliff face, hauling up Bren guns and keeping up lire as they went. Somehow they achieved the apparently impossible through a hail of bombs and bullets, and all nine reached the summit, and held on grimly until reinforcements arrived.
Three were killed in this part of the fighting, but the six survivors joined the relief party in driving the enemy from the buildings on the crest of the hill and down the slopes behind. Their achievement is one of the really great stories of the campaign.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25213, 30 April 1943, Page 2
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