Title: Documents Relating to New Zealand’s Participation in the Second World War 1939―45: Volume 1

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1949, 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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Memorandum by Major-General B. C. Freyberg

This paper has been prepared in bivouac during two full-scale exercises. While I have taken all possible steps to ensure accuracy, the figures quoted in the Appendices can only be regarded as approximate.

• Appendix ‘A’—Comparative Air Strengths, Middle East.

• Appendix ‘B’—Comparative Army Strengths, Middle East.

• Appendix ‘C’—Calculations for Air Supply Column for Desert Corps.

(Signed) B. C. Freyberg, Major-General,

Commanding New Zealand Expeditionary Force

In Bivouac,

Coleman's Hatch, Sussex

29 July 1940