New Zealand Engineers, Middle East

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [frontispiece]
  • New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • [title page]
  • Foreword p. v
  • Preface p. vii
  • Contents p. ix
  • ERRATUM p. x
  • List of Illustrations p. xi
  • List of Maps p. xv
• • CHAPTER 1 — ‘With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper’
    • [section] p. 1
    • 11 Forestry Company p. 27
  • CHAPTER 2 — The First Offensive
    • [section] p. 30
    • Divisional Engineer Units p. 47
    • 19 Army Troops Company p. 48
    • 5 Field Park Company p. 55
  • CHAPTER 3 — In the Lee of the Storm p. 60
    • [section] p. 60
    • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company p. 62
    • 18 Army Troops Company p. 66
    • Railway Units p. 69
    • The Forestry Group p. 74
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece p. 80
  • CHAPTER 5 — The Campaign in Crete p. 123
  • CHAPTER 6 — Non-Divisional Engineer Units in Middle East and England, June - December 1941
    • SURVEY AND RAILWAY OPERATING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES p. 160
    • 18 Army Troops Company p. 176
    • 19 Army Troops Company p. 180
    • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company
    • The Forestry Group p. 192
  • CHAPTER 7 — The Crusader Campaign p. 196
  • CHAPTER 8 — A Miscellany of Work p. 236
    • [section] p. 236
    • Forestry Group p. 242
    • The Field Companies p. 244
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway p. 252
  • CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt p. 280
  • CHAPTER 11 — Behind the Retreat p. 320
    • [section] p. 320
    • Forestry Group p. 338
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Turn of the Tide p. 341
  • CHAPTER 13 — High Tide in Tripolitania p. 375
  • CHAPTER 14 — Behind the Advance
    • [section] p. 396
    • Railway Operating Group
    • Railway Construction and Maintenance Group p. 399
    • 18 Army Troops Company p. 402
    • 19 Army Troops Company p. 405
    • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company p. 411
    • Forestry Units p. 415
  • CHAPTER 15 — Flood Tide in Tunisia
    • [section] p. 419
    • MOVEMENT ORDER p. 459
  • CHAPTER 16 — Reorganisation p. 461
    • The Railway Groups p. 461
    • The Army Troops Companies p. 466
    • 21 Mechanical Equipment Company p. 472
    • Forestry Group p. 476
      • [section] p. 476
      • Act Of Gallantry p. 479
    • 2 NZ Division
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Italian Winter Line
    • [section] p. 483
    • 14 Forestry Company in Algiers p. 526
  • CHAPTER 18 — Cassino p. 530
  • CHAPTER 19 — 14 Forestry Company in Italy p. 569
  • CHAPTER 20 — Advance to Florence
    • [section] p. 591
    • 6 Field Company p. 621
    • 7 Field Company
    • 8 Field Company
    • 5 Field Park Company
  • CHAPTER 21 — The Advance to the Savio River
    • [section] p. 627
    • INFORMATION p. 642
    • INTENTION
  • CHAPTER 22 — To the Senio p. 651
  • CHAPTER 23 — To Ronchi p. 677
  • CHAPTER 24 — ‘Battled Fields no More’ p. 717
  • Appendix I — ORDER OF BATTLE — New Zealand Engineers — Middle East and Italy, 1939–45 p. 726
  • Appendix II — 2 NZEF ARMY POSTAL SERVICE p. 727
  • Appendix III — 3 Section, 9 NZ Railway Survey Company, and the Wadi Halfa Extension, 1941 p. 731
  • Appendix IV — EXTRACT FROM ROYAL ENGINEERS TRAINING MEMORANDUM — Section 43.—NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS IN ITALY p. 734
    • General p. 734
    • Local bridging method
    • Lessons learned as a result of operations in Italy p. 735
  • Appendix V — ANALYSIS OF PROMOTIONS, CASUALTIES AND AWARDS IN A FIELD COMPANY, NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS p. 738
  • Roll of Honour p. 740
  • Summary of Casualties p. 747
  • Honours and Awards p. 748
  • Commanders, New Zealand Engineers, 2 NZEF p. 750
  • Index p. 751
• [backmatter] p. 775

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