249 — General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence [Extract]

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249
General Freyberg to the Minister of Defence [Extract]

28 October 1940

I am glad to be able to report that the question of detachments from and the subsequent concentration of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force has been settled with General Wavell. It cannot be carried out at once but arrangements will be made to do so as soon as the operational position here and the reinforcement of the Middle East allow….1

1 See First Echelon in Egypt (No. 97) for rest of text.

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Title: Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939―45: Volume 1

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1949, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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