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Part of NZ motorised infantry unit forced to walk to safe territory in Libya, World War II
- Date
- [Between Dec 1941 and Jan 1942]
- Reference
- DA-02533-F
- Description
A party of New Zealanders forming part of a motorised infantry unit were detailed to form a road block outside Benghazi. It was discovered that they could not use their transport to withdraw as the road was cut behind them. They decided to walk. They lived with Arabs, walked by day and night and were finally picked up by South African troops west of Gazala in Libya, after covering 250 miles on foot in eleven days. Group members identified as: Driver S G McKinnon (Ak), Driver A W Blackburn (Ak), Corporal S Roa (Ak), Sergeant T W Gill (Wn). Taken between December 1941 and January 1942 by an official photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Cellulosic film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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