Menastir
(Place)
Mentioned in
- 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
- 22 Battalion
- 23 Battalion
- 25 Battalion
- 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
- 28 (Maori) Battalion
- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
- Alam Halfa and Alamein
- Divisional Cavalry
- Divisional Signals
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
- The Relief of Tobruk
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- CHAPTER 6 — From Baggush to the Libyan Frontier
- CHAPTER 8 — The Frontier Operations Begin
- CHAPTER 9 — Heading for Tobruk
- CHAPTER 12 — The Matruh Stakes
- CHAPTER 17 — Rommel's ‘Evil Dream’
- CHAPTER 19 — The Loss of 5 Brigade Headquarters
- CHAPTER 25 — Plodding on Westwards
- CHAPTER 26 — Gazala and Beyond
- Index
Image Gallery
.jpg "action at menastir, 3 december")
.jpg "German prisoners, Menastir, November 1941. Sgt I. Lang, facing camera, was mortally wounded a few days later")
.jpg "Menastir positions on the Via Balbia")
.jpg "One of 4 Company's guns steaming after helping to beat off a dawn attack at Menastir, Cyrenaica")
.jpg "On the escarpment at Menastir: W. P. Gibson (in gunpit), T. E. Doyle and M. Homer (with binoculars) of 11 Platoon")
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Menastir":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.