Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume II
35 — General Freyberg (Egypt) to the Chief of the General Staff (Wellington)
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35
General Freyberg (Egypt)4 to the Chief of the General Staff (Wellington)
30 September 1940
Are you able to do anything to hurry up reinforcements for us here? One brigade in England will not be here before the end of
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December. Any number would be welcome even though they were given only one month's military training.
Please let me know when you receive the appreciation of the situation in Egypt I did for the British Cabinet, and which I sent you personally by mail from England.1
The Third Echelon has just begun to arrive in camp here. All are well.
4 General Freyberg returned to Egypt from the United Kingdom on 24 Sep.
1 See Volume I, Appendix IV, ‘The Position in Egypt’, Memorandum by Major-General B. C. Freyberg, 29 Jul 1940.
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