New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy
General Freyberg in Hospital
General Freyberg in Hospital
On 3 September Lieutenant-General Freyberg was involved in an aeroplane accident in the forward area, sustaining a wound in the right flank but without abdominal injury. He was conveyed to 1 General Hospital, which had just arrived at Senigallia and had not then opened to receive cases, and was there operated on. The wound was excised and treated with penicillin and the GOC made an uneventful recovery.