New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
MOVEMENT ORDER
MOVEMENT ORDER
HQ 2 NZ Div Engineers will move to EGYPT commencing 15 May 43.
POSITION IN CONVOY. Behind 5 NZ Inf Bde. In front of 6 NZ Fd Coy.
ROUTE. KAIROUAN–Sth LONDON Rd and Y Track–Main Coast Rd–TRIPOLI.
START TIMES. Start time each day 0900 hrs. Tomorrow approx 0840 hrs.
SPEED AND DENSITY. 20 mih. 40 vtm.
HALTS. For 10 mins at 10 mins to each odd hour.
1200-1300.
All day halts for maintenance 22 and 29 May.
MEALS. Breakfast at cook's truck 0700 hrs.
Lunch at trucks.
Dinner ??? to be notified daily.
STAGING AREAS. At approx 120 miles intervals and marked by fernleaf signs.
DISPERSION. In staging areas 50 yds.
MINES. There is a danger of mines around staging areas.
SANITATION. Leave staging areas tidy….
TYRE PRESSURE. To be checked each morning.
WELFARE. Mobile cinema will be travelling with each gp. Patriotic Parcels and issue of cigarettes at TRIPOLI.
page 460PETROL. Drivers are responsible for the drawing of petrol up to 300 miles from Cpl Roper22 before 1900 hrs today 14 May 43.
CHANGE OF TIME. Watches will be put forward one hour at MARBLE ARCH.
P. H. G. Hamilton,23 Capt
Adjutant 2 NZ Div Engineers.
Engineer casualties for all ranks in the Tunisian campaign were:
Killed | Wounded |
13 | 68 |
22 Cpl J. N. Roper; Warkworth; born NZ 20 Sep 1909; motor mechanic.
23 Lt-Col P. H. G. Hamilton, m.i.d.; Wellington; born Auckland, 26 Apr 1918; mining student; OC 8 Fd Coy May-Jun 1944; Chief Engineer, NZ Army, Nov 1960–.