Journey Towards Christmas

Contents

• • [covers]
  • JOURNEY TOWARDS CHRISTMAS
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page]
  • [dedication]
  • FOREWORD
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • LIST OF MAPS
• • CHAPTER 1 — DESIGN FOR A UNIT
  • CHAPTER 2 — HOW TO SEE EGYPT ON A POUND A WEEK
  • CHAPTER 3 — MEETING AT AMIRIYA
    • (1) Birth of a Happy Section
    • (2) Working for Wavell
    • (3) Diversion to a Dragon-Slaying
  • CHAPTER 4 — PICNIC BEFORE A THUNDERSTORM
  • CHAPTER 5 — THE THUNDERSTORM
  • CHAPTER 6 — WITHDRAWAL FROM GREECE
  • CHAPTER 7 — ISLAND INTERLUDE
  • CHAPTER 8 — MURDER ON THE OLD HOOK
  • CHAPTER 9 — FOX IN THE FOWL RUN
  • CHAPTER 10 — THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY
  • CHAPTER 11 — PRISON AND THE MUSHROOM COUNTRY
  • CHAPTER 12 — SYRIA
  • CHAPTER 13 — WHILE SHEPHEARD'S WATCHED
  • CHAPTER 14 — A STUDY IN DISCOMFORT
  • CHAPTER 15 — OUT OF THE SLOUGH
  • CHAPTER 16 — JOURNEY WITH HALTS
  • CHAPTER 17 — FEEDING A CATERPILLAR
  • CHAPTER 18 — THE END OF THE FIRST HALF
  • CHAPTER 19 — DISSECTION OF AN UNDERBELLY
    • (1) The Sangro
    • (2) Apollyon in the Path
    • (3) And So To Rome
  • CHAPTER 20 — THROUGH THE VINEYARDS
  • CHAPTER 21 — THE MAIALE'S CASA
  • CHAPTER 22 — WHITE CHRISTMAS
  • CHAPTER 23 — ‘THY CHASE HAD A BEAST IN VIEW’
    • (1) The Rivers
    • (2) Drive to a Cricket Match
  • CHAPTER 24 — ‘…AND THE REAR PARTY WILL CLEAN UP’
  • ROLL OF HONOUR
  • HONOURS AND AWARDS
  • COMMANDING OFFICERS

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Title: Journey Towards Christmas: Official History of the 1st Ammunition Company, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1939-45

Author: Llewellyn, S. P.

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

Key subjects of this text: 1 Ammunition Company

Keywords: New Zealand World War II History

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