18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
List of Illustrations
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page xiv
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece | ||
Bayonet charge in the Desert | J. A. T. G. Smith collection | |
Following page | ||
18 Battalion marches into Papakura | 100 | |
Filling palliasses, Papakura | 100 | |
Troopship amusements—Boxing | G. B. Nelson collection | 100 |
Troopship amusements—Race Day | Eric Firth | 100 |
The Battalion goes ashore at Tewfik | W. Ross collection | 100 |
A Company signal office, Maadi, 1940 | C. W. Dudding | 100 |
18 Battalion in the desert behind Maadi Camp | G. R. Andrews | 100 |
Battalion transport at Kasr-el-Nil Barracks | R. T. Bishop collection | 100 |
Cooking in the field | E. Firth | 116 |
Wadi Naghamish | R. A. Pickett collection | 116 |
Dinner time, Baggush | R. A. Pickett collection | 116 |
Dinner time, Mikri Milia, Greece | R. T. Bishop collection | 116 |
Pause on roadside, Greece | NZ Army | 116 |
Looking down on Servia | R. A. Pickett collection | 116 |
Crete—7 General Hospital after a bombing raid | J. L. Richards collection | 116 |
German troops on the march towards Sfakia | German photograph | 116 |
Crete survivors—8 Platoon, A Company | L. Rawley | 150 |
Combined training—Assault Landing Craft on HMS | Glenroy L. Rawley | 150page xii |
Combined training—landing from the Assault Craft | L. Rawley | 150 |
Gambut airfield | H. R. Lapwood collection | 150 |
18 Battalion convoy being shelled | L. Rawley collection | 150 |
Belhamed—18 Battalion advances on the German pocket | W. E. Higgins collection | 150 |
German prisoners at Belhamed | R. D. Coats collection | 150 |
18 Battalion Signal truck after hitting a mine | J. A. T. G. Smith collection | 150 |
Battalion Headquarters on Belhamed | S. N. S. Crump | 182 |
Section post, Belhamed | R. A. Pickett collection | 182 |
18 Battalion Headquarters in the escarpment below Belhamed | S. N. S. Crump | 182 |
‘Fishing’ in the Orontes | R. T. Bishop collection | 182 |
Route march in the Syrian hills | W. E. Higgins collection | 182 |
Alamein line—after the Stukas left | J. R. Marra collection | 182 |
B Company platoon post, Alamein line | R. A. Pickett collection | 182 |
Armoured training at Maadi—gunnery class | 18 Regiment collection | 182 |
Reunion dinner, Cairo, 1943 | NZ Army (G. R. Bull) | 380 |
Fording the Biferno River | A. H. Dickinson collection | 380 |
A Squadron tanks on Torretta | 18 Regiment collection | 380 |
18 Regiment moves up towards the Sangro | O. H. Burn collection | 380 |
On the Orsogna-Ortona road | 18 Regiment collection | 380 |
New Year's Day at Castelfrentano | O. H. Burn collection | 380 |
The last of the ‘originals’ go home on furlough | 18 Regiment collection | 380 |
In the gun line at Trocchio | 18 Regiment collection | 412 |
Cassino railway station | W. H. Reynolds collection | 412page xiii |
A tank bivvy | 18 Regiment collection | 412 |
A Squadron's ‘well-diver’ | A. H. Dickinson collection | 412 |
18 Regiment halts on the way north from Veroli | 18 Regiment collection | 412 |
A Sherman tank boards its transporter | 18 Regiment collection | 412 |
The Regiment's first Tiger, 23 July 1944 | ||
From inside a Sherman—anti-tank gun on the road ahead | G. R. McIntosh collection | 412 |
Panther turret on Rimini airfield | NZ Army (G. F. Kaye) | 542 |
Prepared for rain—a Reconnaissance Troop Honey tank | P. L. Collins collection | 542 |
B Squadron troop out of action, 19 October 1944 | Rev. R. M. Gourdie collection | 542 |
C Squadron gun line at Faenza | G. R. McIntosh collection | 542 |
Over the bank at the Scolo Tratturo, 10 April 1945 | J. W. Brook collection | 542 |
Stuck in the ditch, 13 April 1945 | R. Thomas collection | 542 |
Maori infantry ride on the tanks | R. J. Toon collection | 542 |
Recovery tank drags out a Tiger | J. W. Brook collection | 542 |
Loaded up for the final advance | A. J. Williamson collection | 574 |
Crossing the Reno | R. J. Toon collection | 574 |
Across the big rivers—the Po | R. Thomas collection | 574 |
Across the big rivers—the Adige | NZ Army (G. F. Kaye) | 574 |
July 1945—tanks ready to leave the Regiment for the last time | J. W. Brook collection | 574 |
Lt-Cols J. R. Gray and J. N. Peart | NZ Herald, Auckland | 574 |
Lt-Col R. J. Lynch | NZ Army | 574 |
Lt-Col C. L. Pleasants | NZ Army (G. R. Bull) | 574 |
Lt-Col J. B. Ferguson | J. B. Ferguson collection | 574 |
Lt-Col H. H. Parata | NZ Army | 574 |