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27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
| Frontispiece | |
| Minqar Qaim, 27 June 1942 | New Zealand Army (H. Paton) |
| Following page 132 | |
| In the beer garden, Burnham Military Camp | Green and Hahn |
| Loading ammunition belts at Cave, South Canterbury | S. A. Bremford |
| Training on the Sobieski | M. Tuohey collection |
| Demonstrating the ‘Inglis design’ gun emplacement, Maadi Camp | R. L. McGaffin collection |
| Climbing Gebel Mokattam during a route march | C. C. Johansen collection |
| Packing up after manoeuvres | W. R. Norman |
| 2 Company at the Citadel, Cairo | C. C. Johansen collection |
| A mineral bath at Helwan | A. W. White collection |
| Christmas at Baggush, 1940 | R. L. McGaffin collection |
| Italian prisoners from Sidi Barrani | H. S. Wells collection |
| Near Vevi in northern Greece | W. G. McClymont collection |
| One of 3 Company's guns near Elasson | A. H. Dickinson |
| The road from the Yugoslav frontier to Kleidi Pass | |
| Greeks retreating from the Albanian front | T. A. Laurence collection |
| The airborne invasion of Crete | Dr K. Bringmann |
| German paratroopers and machine-gunners near Galatas | German source |
| One of 4 Company's guns after helping to beat off a dawn attack at Menastir, Cyrenaica | F. R. Keane collection |
| On the escarpment at Menastir | Australian Official (G. Silk) |
| At Capuzzo | R. E. Riddell collection |
| At the edge of the Sidi Rezegh airfield | L. Lister collection page xii |
| Following page 132 | |
| Sidi Rezegh mosque | W. G. Judd |
| In the prisoner-of-war compound at Bardia | H. Anderson |
| On the way to Syria | C. W. J. Lawrie |
| The Bekaa Valley | R. L. Kay |
| A sangar in the Alamein Line | W. L. Hill |
| Inside the sangar | W. L. Hill |
| One of 10 Platoon's guns near Point 100, 4 September 1942 | J. A. Forsyth |
| Defence against the Alamein fly | D. P. McGovern |
| General Montgomery, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel J. K. Robbie, inspecting the battalion before the Battle of Alamein | British Official |
| Near 8 Platoon's gunline on Miteiriya Ridge | A. D. Watkin |
| Christmas at Nofilia, 1942 | R. E. Riddell collection |
| Examining a captured spandau | New Zealand Army (H. Paton) |
| Following page 294 | |
| German tanks knocked out near 3 Platoon at Medenine | R. L. McGaffin collection |
| During the halt at Sousse | H. S. Wells collection |
| 2 Platoon in front of Takrouna | D. P. McGovern |
| One of 2 Company's guns knocked out near Takrouna | I. S. Moore collection |
| The confluence of the Sangro and Aventino rivers | I. S. Moore collection |
| Packing supplies for 3 Platoon on the Orsogna front | D. P. McGovern |
| One of 8 Platoon's guns facing Orsogna | H. W. Judd collection |
| On Sfasciata Ridge | G. G. Beckingham |
| Montecassino and the snow-capped Monte Cairo | F. H. Williams |
| 12 Platoon pauses on the Pasquale Road about a mile from Cassino | W. E. MacLean collectionpage xiii |
| Following page 294 | |
| In a mountain sector | New Zealand Army (G. F. Kaye) |
| A mule team about to pack rations and ammunition for the platoons | New Zealand Army (G. F. Kaye) |
| The San Michele school and the church in which 4 Platoon supported D Company 24 Battalion | J. S. Freeborn collection |
| In the hills south of Florence | A. Gladstone collection |
| 10 Platoon packing up to leave Bellaria, on the Adriatic coast | R. T. Little |
| Digging a gunpit near the Fiumicino River | R. T. Little |
| Pioraco village | R. T. Little |
| Ceremony at the Pioraco cenotaph on the Italian day of remembrance, 4 November 1944 | R. T. Little |
| Behind 10 Platoon's gunline across the Lamone River before 5 Brigade's attack, December 1944 | R. T. Little |
| Digging in near Celle after 5 Brigade's attack | R. T. Little |
| Carrying a gun into position near Faenza | J. L. Knowles collection |
| Training as infantry at Esanatoglia | N. O. Steel collection |
| Waiting in Kangaroos before crossing the Senio River | R. T. Little |
| Searching a German prisoner near Sesto Imolese after crossing the Sillaro River | New Zealand Army (G. F. Kaye) |
| Two Panther tanks put out of action by J. L. Tucker, 16 April 1945 | R. W. Burton collection |
| Panther tank ditched after being attacked | R. W. Burton collection |
| Captured nebelwerfers | R. W. Burton collection |
| 3 Company crossing the River Po | R. W. Burton collection |
| In the Castello San Giusto, Trieste | New Zealand Army (G. F. Kaye) page xiv |
| Following page 294 | |
| A march through Yamaguchi, Japan | 27 Battalion War Diary |
| Lt-Col L. M. Inglis | Official |
| Lt-Col F. J. Gwilliam | G. V. Turnbull |
| Lt-Col R. L. McGaffin | R. L. McGaffin collection |
| Lt-Col D. G. Steele | D. G. Steele collection |
| Lt-Col J. L. MacDuff | W. A. Whitlock collection |
| Lt-Col G. P. Sanders | New Zealand Army (G. F. Kaye) |