Illustrations

Looking north-east from 5 Brigade HQ at Minqar Qaim on 27 June 1942

Wire for defensive positions in Syria

Machine-gunners digging in, Syria

Sappers digging a gunpit, Syria

Convoy at the ruins of Palmyra

Leaving Syria on the Damascus road

Dumps on fire at Mersa Matruh after a raid

Uploading on the escarpment at Minqar Qaim. Dispersion is bad on the first return to the desert

Digging in on the rocky escarpment

Looking east from 5 Brigade HQ during the artillery duel

Shells bursting on New Zealand gun positions

Observing shellfire

A 25-pounder in action at Minqar Qaim

Lieutenant-General Freyberg in a slit trench after he had been wounded

The break out - from the painting by Peter McIntyre

Wrecked vehicles at the foot of Minqar Qaim - from the painting by J. Crippen

Headquarters of 5 Infantry Brigade halted after the break-out at Minqar Qaim. The 3-ton truck held German prisoners

After an early morning conference at Munassib, July 1942 - Majors M. C. Fairbrother and R. B. Dawson, Brigadiers H. K. Kippenberger and C. E. Weir

The northern edge of the Qattara Depression

19 Battalion advancing against Ariete Division on 3 July 1942

Enemy shells falling across 4 Field Regiment observation posts on Alam Nayil ridge

Some of the guns of Ariete Division captured by the CRA’s column and 19 Battalion

German 88-millimetre guns captured on Alam Nayil. New Zealand engineers have blown the barrels

Ruweisat Ridge, photographed in September 1944

18 Battalion transport bombed south of Ruweisat Ridge

25-pounders of 6 Field Regiment firing on Ruweisat Ridge - from the painting by C. Hansen

21 Battalion Signal Office on 16 July

El Mreir Depression - from the painting by J. Crippen

Regimental Aid Post of 28 Battalion in the New Zealand Box

The hard summer of 1942

Lt-Gen W. H. E. Gott, Commander of 13 Corps

General Auchinleck, C-in-C Middle East, and Major-General Freyberg during exercises on Suez Canal, February 1942

Brig G. H. Clifton and Col W. G. Gentry, GSO 1, before the El Mreir attack

Rommel (centre) with staff, Brig Clifton (as prisoner) is on the left

Brig H. K. Kippenberger in July 1942

Maj-Gen L. M. Inglis

Brig C. E. Weir

Lt-Col G. L. Agar, Divisional Signals (1941)

Lt-Col R. C. Queree, 4 Field Regiment (September 1943)

Lt-Col K. W. R. Glasgow, 5 Field Regiment (May 1943)

Lt-Col C. L. Walter, 6 Field Regiment (August 1943)

Lt-Col J. M. Mitchell, 7 Anti-Tank Regiment (August 1943)

Lt-Col F. M. H. Hanson, Divisional Engineers (August 1943)

Lt-Col A. J. Nicoll, Divisional Cavalry

General Auchinleck and Lt-Col R. J. Lynch, 18 Battalion (November 1941)

Lt-Col C. L. Pleasants, 18 Battalion (August 1943)

Lt-Col S. F. Hartnell, 19 Battalion (November 1941)

Lt-Col J. T. Burrows, 20 Battalion (May 1944)

Brig Kippenberger and Lt-Col S.F. Allen, 21 Battalion (July 1942)

Lt-Col J. T. Russell, 22 Battalion (1940)

Lt-Col R. E. Romans, 23 Battalion (September 1942)

Lt-Col A. W. Greville (centre), 24 Battalion (July 1942)

Lt-Col C. D. A. George, 25 Battalion (1941)

Lt-Col J. R. Gray of 4 Brigade and Lt-Col J. N. Peart, 26 Battalion (1940)

Lt-Col F. J. Gwilliam, 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion (November 1942)

Col S. H. Crump, Army Service Corps (May 1941)

Brig H. S. Kenrick, Medical Corps (August 1943)

Capt C. H. Upham, VC and Bar

Sgt K. Elliott, VC