Divisional Cavalry
(Organisation)

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• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 3 — Training in Egypt
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 6 — Rebuilding the Battalion
  • CHAPTER 7 — Campaign in Libya
  • CHAPTER 9 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 16 — To Avezzano
  • CHAPTER 18 — From Florence to the Savio
  • CHAPTER 19 — Winter on the Senio
  • CHAPTER 20 — The Last Lap
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — These Were the Men
  • CHAPTER 3 — Libya, 1941
  • CHAPTER 4 — Into 1942 and Syria
  • CHAPTER 8 — To Italy
  • CHAPTER 9 — Across the Sangro
  • CHAPTER 12 — Adriatic
  • CHAPTER 14 — ‘Hell of a Crack’
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
  • II: Galatas
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 6 — The Wavell Show
  • CHAPTER 8 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 9 — Libya, 1941
  • CHAPTER 10 — Syrian Interlude
  • CHAPTER 12 — A Fateful Month
  • CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army Conquers
  • CHAPTER 14 — The End in North Africa
  • CHAPTER 17 — Clean-up in Italy
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 1 — The First Echelon
  • CHAPTER 2 — The Second Echelon
  • CHAPTER 3 — Third Echelon joins the First
  • CHAPTER 5 — Assembly and Training of the New Zealand Division
  • Divisional Cavalry Regiment Along the Aliakmon River
  • Units Continue to Arrive
  • The New Zealanders and Australians Continue to Prepare Their Positions
  • The Allied Commanders Decide to Withdraw
  • The Withdrawal Begins on 8 April: 1 Armoured Brigade
  • Fourth Brigade Group is Withdrawn
  • 21 Battalion Moves up from Athens to the Platamon Tunnel
  • Withdrawals and Adjustments during 9–10 April
  • The Withdrawal of 6 Brigade
  • Mackay Force bolds up the German Advance
  • 12–13 April: Plans for a General Withdrawal
  • General Wilson decides to Withdraw to Thermopylae
  • 1 Armoured Brigade Group, including New Zealand units, withdraws from Grevena, night 14–15 April
  • Situation at Last Light, 14 April
  • 15 April: The Situation becomes More Serious
  • The Withdrawal Plans have to be Changed, 16 April
  • The Withdrawal continues through Kalabaka, 16 April
  • New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment Witbdraws to the Main Defence Line
  • Movements to and from Servia Pass
  • The Germans attack 21 Battalion above the Platamon Tunnel
  • The Positions of 5 Brigade about Olympus Pass
  • The Germans approach Olympus Pass, Night 14–15 April
  • The Withdrawal of 5 Brigade
  • The Rearguard assembles at Elasson
  • Fourth Brigade Completes its Withdrawal, 18–19 April
  • The Rearguard at Elevtherokhorion, 18 April
  • Sixth Brigade covers the Withdrawal, 18 April
  • The Withdrawal through Volos
  • The Orders for Withdrawal
  • The Rearguard Action in the late afternoon, 18 April
  • The Rearguard at Volos
  • The Rearguard at Dhomokos
  • The New Zealand Sector
  • Medical and Base Units leave the Athens Area, 22–25 April
  • The Evacuation Plans for W Force
  • The Withdrawal from Thermopylae begins, Night 22–23 April
  • The Front Weakens
  • Withdrawals from the Thermopylae area, Night 23–24 April
  • The New Zealand Withdrawal
  • Preparations for Defence
  • The Germans Attack from the Air
  • Evacuations Continue during the Night 26–27 April
  • Withdrawal of 4 Brigade from Kriekouki on night 26–27 April
  • Embarkation Successes and Disappointments, Night 27–28 April

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