BACK FROM CAPETOWN
SECOND ECHELON MEN INVALIDED HOME Four New Zealand soldiers, all Aucklanders, who went overseas with the Second Echelon of the Expeditionary Force, have returned to tZe Dominion. They have been invalided home from Capetown. All four were taken ill during the voyage and were landed at Capetown for hospital treatment. They remained there four weeks before taking passage to New Zealand. "We don’t know what’s going to happen to us at the moment, but we expect to go overseas again later on," said one of the men, when interviewed al Wellington. "Oh boy, vvl at a surprise is in store for our people in Auckland," he added. “They have no idea that we are back.” None of the four men had much to say about the journey from New Zealand to Africa; they were in hospital most of the time. They said they enjoyed the time they had in Capetown after their discharge from hospital and that the British residents there treated them very well.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 4
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168BACK FROM CAPETOWN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 4
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