24 Battalion
List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
The church at San Michele | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | Frontispiece |
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Future officers and NCOs marching through Auckland to entrain for Papakura | The Weekly News | 50 |
En route to Papakura Camp | The Weekly News | 50 |
Recruits cleaning rifles | The Weekly News | 50 |
Farewell parade in the Auckland Domain | The Weekly News | 50 |
On the Empress of Japan | A. C. W. Mantell-Harding collection | 50 |
A Company men in Athens watch Italian prisoners | New Zealand Army Official | 50 |
At Mount Hymettus | J. A. Carroll collection | 50 |
Mount Olympus from Katerine | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
A group in Katerine | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
In Pal Elevtherokhorion village | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
Digging defences on the Aliakmon line | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
The monastery above Livadhion | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
Livadhion village | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
German reconnaissance plane in the Molos area | J. A. Carroll collection | 82 |
Larissa | E. L. Tinker collection | 116 |
Lt-Col C. Shuttleworth's car machine-gunned by a German aircraft, south of the Corinth Canal | 116 page xii | |
L-Cpl J. Dempsey with a Vickers gun salvaged in Greece | New Zealand Army Official | 116 |
Escaped from Greece: Sgt A. J. Grimmond (centre) and party | A. C. W. Mantell-Harding collection | 116 |
General Freyberg inspecting 24 Battalion at Helwan | New Zealand Army Official | 116 |
Crossing the Wire into Libya, November 1941 | 116 | |
Smoke of battle, Libya | J. C. White | 116 |
On Sidi Rezegh escarpment, east of the blockhouse | 116 | |
Breaking camp at Kabrit en route to Syria | R. G. Webb | 148 |
Syrians watching a distribution of flour | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 148 |
El Mreir Depression | —from a painting by J. Crippen | 148 |
Lt. K. S. Turtill, Lt-Col A. W. Greville, and Maj A. E. Beyer studying a map, July 1942 | New Zealand Army Official | 148 |
Reunion dinner in Cairo | New Zealand Army Official (H. Paton) | 148 |
A group in the Western Desert | G. V. Turnbull collection | 148 |
Training with tanks near Wadi Natrun | B. C. Mills | 148 |
Crusader tank passing 24 Battalion positions at Alamein | E. R. Andrews | 148 |
The road into Mersa Matruh, November 1942 | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 182 |
In desert formation across Wadi Zemzem | New Zealand Army Official (H. Paton) | 182 |
At Tripoli—General Freyberg, Brig H. K. Kippenberger, Mr Churchill, Brig W. G. Gentry, and the three commanding officers of 6 Brigade | G. V. Turnbull | 182 |
Bivouac area near Medenine | G. V. Turnbull | 182 page xiii |
8 Armoured Brigade Sherman at Tebaga Gap | E. R. Andrews | 182 |
HQ B Company after the battle of Tebaga Gap | E. R. Andrews | 182 |
German and Italian prisoners after the action at the Roman Wall | Bruce Guthrie | 182 |
Advance through the desert to Gabes | G. V. Turnbull | 182 |
Support weapons of 24 Battalion waiting to cross the Sangro | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 214 |
The Brickworks, Castelfrentano, under enemy shellfire | British Official | 214 |
Aerial view of Orsogna from the south | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 214 |
The breastworks, Orsogna | F. W. Williams collection | 214 |
Ruins of the Continental Hotel, Cassino | Yank newspaper | 214 |
Looking on to the valley south of Cassino from near Point 202 | N. G. Tracey | 214 |
Some of the men of C Company who were isolated on Point 202 | N. G. Tracey | 214 |
Colle Sant' Angelo captured by 24 Battalion on 1 June 1944 | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 248 |
The Aquatic Derby on the Liri River | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 248 |
Burnt-out mortar carrier in the San Michele area | H. G. Gilmour | 248 |
Anti-Tank Platoon's jeep after running over a mine | H. G. Gilmour | 248 |
Men and transport at Forli | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 248 page xiv |
Move to the Faenza front | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 248 |
At the Lamone River, February 1945 | H. G. Gilmour | 248 |
Exercise for flame-throwing equipment | H. G. Gilmour | 248 |
D Company moving up to the Senio | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
The Senio stopbank and D Company positions | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
16 Platoon on the Santerno, 11 April 1945 | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
Smoke ring made by nebelwerfer on Santerno River | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
D Company under fire across the Santerno | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
Oil bomb bursting on the Idice | 24 Battalion collection | 280 |
Anti-tank gun crossing the Po River | H. G. Gilmour | 280 |
Maj P. R. Pike | New Zealand Army Official (M. D. Elias) | 280 |
Lt-Col R. L. Hutchens | New Zealand Army Official (G. F. Kaye) | 280 |