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TRAINING IN AUSTRALIA NUMBER OF EXPERIENCED OFFICERS. RECALLED FROM MIDDLE EAST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Action was already being taken to bring back from the Middle East a number of brilliant and experienced majors, captains, lieutenants and noncommissioned officers, who were exports in training and had a knowledge of modern warfare, said the Minister for the Army (Mr Forde). These men will assist the senior officers who have just been appointed to key positions in the Home Army. The object, Mr Forde said, was to intensify training and place the Home Army on a complete war footing. The Militia would get equipment similar to that of the A.I.F.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 4
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