1940, 23 December: |
Brigadier W. H. Cunningham inspected Samambula camp. |
1941, 16 January: |
Brigadier Bowerbank inspected Samambula camp. |
25 April: |
There was an Anzac Day parade on Albert Park, Suva.page 135 |
18 July: |
Lieutenant-General Sir Guy Williams took the salute at a ceremonial parade at Albert Park, This was followed by a practice 'alarm'. |
1942, 18 May: |
Major-General O. H. Mead inspected the battalion on the Nausori golf links. |
27 May: |
His Excellency the Governor-General, Marshal of the Air Force, Sir Cyril Newall did the same. |
14 June: |
At a United Nations Day parade in Suva, the battalion was represented by C company. |
9 September: |
The new Goc, Major-General H. E. Barrow-dough, inspected the brigade at Papakura. |
23 November: |
The fact that our tropical clothing was worn out was impressed on the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Puttick, and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, when they visited us in Tongatabu. |
4 December: |
Major-General M. Harmon, American commander of ground forces in the South Pacific, thought he could get us some more shirts. He inspected C company at reserve area, Tonga-tabu. |
1943, 25 April: |
Anzac Day parade at Ouenghi, New Caledonia. |
9 July: |
The Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones and the Goc inspected the brigade at Dubois Field, while the band played Isa Lei. |
30 July: |
General Puttick, the Hon. W. Perry and the Hon. W. Nash paid informal calls. |
1 November: |
Colonel Eyre and the mortar platoon represented the battalion at the raising of the Union Jack on Mono Island. |
19 November: |
The Governor-General and the Goc found us hard, lean and bronzed on the beaches at Malsi and Soanotalu. |