BATTLE EXERCISES COMPLETED
NEW ZEALAND TROOPS IN THE DESERT (From the Official War Correspondent with the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt) EGYPT, February 3. Training in resistance to dive-bomb-ing and tank attacks and night operations were features of further realistic battle exercises which have just been completed by a full infantry brigade. In a day’s march of 17 miles across rough desert country three battalions were subjected to mock attacks by lowflying Royal Ail - Force machines. Putting their knowledge of defensive measures to the test next day, they marched a further eight miles to a point where they effected the night capture of a supposed fort, which two battalions took after carrying all fighting equipment and dragging anti-tank guns by hand across a wide stretch of desert. A third battalion fought its way along an imaginary coastline through an intercepting enemy force consisting of light tanks and Bren gun carriers. Continually harassed by an “enemy brigade” they marched home by night.
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Southland Times, Issue 24352, 5 February 1941, Page 6
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