OFFICERS’ ESCAPE
NEW ZEALAND DIVISION (Official War Correspondent. M.Z.E.F.) CAIRO, Dec. 8 A despatch from Tobruk dated December 3 states when the German tanks drove a wedge through the New Zealand fighting forces around the Sidi Rezeg' -Bel Hamed sector on December 1 mere was some doubt whether the General Officer Commanding and his personal staff had withdrawn in time. It was also feared that the brigadiers and headquarters of two infantry brigades, one commanded by Brigadier Barrowclough and the other by Brigadier Inglis, might have been captured or. worse still, wiped out in the vicious German tank attack, but it was eventually established that all were safe.
All three—general and staff and both brigade headquarters—withdrew in different directions toward the east. The three formations gathered together somewhere in Libya yesterday.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21601, 11 December 1941, Page 5
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