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Timeline of Events

26 June - July 1941

Sailing from Wellington to Egypt on board the Aquitania.

August 10 - October 1941

Maadi, Egypt, near Cairo, Infantry Training Depot.

18 October 1941

Denis assigned to B Company, 24 Battalion, 6 Brigade, 2 New Zealand Division in Baggush, Egypt.

9 November 1941

6 Brigade moves out of Baggush to the front line.

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