Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, 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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Evacuation from Greece of Sick and Wounded

Up to 19 April, 26 General Hospital cleared its patients satisfactorily by hospital ships from Athens. After that date walking patients were added to the base troops, and many were evacuated from the beaches. Only by the provision of more hospital ships could more of the serious casualties have been evacuated.