ARMY TANK SCHOOL
Officers Arrive From Middle East
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. A number of officers and men arrived from the Middle East to act as instructors at the Army Tar - B—c 1.
They are all experienced officers a:;:! non-comffiissioned officers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and ail served in tank brigades in aett ,i In the Western Desert and Greece. It was announced recently that Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. M. Gtovxs, of th: Royal Armoured Corps, who has arrived at Auckland, would command the new armoured fighting vehicle school at Waiouru. Lieutenant-Colonel GroVes has spent the last four years in the Middle East and he fought ’n the Libyan campaign. The Mirister of Defence (Hon. F. Jones) in a recent state lent, announced that the ne-z school is a corollary to the formation of an Army Tank Brigade which is to be rait i and trained in the Dbminibn. The first function o' the school Will be to train officers and n.c.o.’s for the brigade, it will then train others for certain territorial Units ‘••■h are to be reorgani- I into light armoured fighting vehicle regi. nents.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 4
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188ARMY TANK SCHOOL Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22063, 9 September 1941, Page 4
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