DIVISION IN EGYPT
FEARLESS FIGHTING MEN WHAT EQUIPMENT MEANT LONDON, Apl. 30. , Major C. F. Skinner, M.C., M.P., of the New Zealand Engineers, who is visiting London from North Africa, addressed the Overseas League. ‘‘After January, 1940, the New Zealand Second Division has been in every campaign in the tremendous struggles to and fro which have slowly led to Tunisia,” he said. “In all phases, except the present, the truly heroic Empire fighters were denied reward again and again by lack of equipment, but the Eighth Army learned that the Empire’s fighting men fear no foe. When at last guns, tanks, planes, and ammunition arrived in abundance a tremendous wave of confidence seized all ranks.”
Major Skinner, who participated in the defence of Greece, paid a tribute to the Greeks. “We think of Greece with feelings of homesickness,” he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25215, 3 May 1943, Page 4
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