New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Medical Staffs Volunteer to Remain

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Medical Staffs Volunteer to Remain

As the stretcher cases were left in the caves of 7 General Hospital and in the wards of other temporary hospitals, more than the required number of medical personnel volunteered to remain and become prisoners of war with them; so much was this the case that Colonel Kenrick had to issue an instruction that additional medical officers and nursing orderlies would not remain unless given a direct order by superior authority to do so.

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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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