Personal Messages from the No. 1 Port Detachment

Rights Information
Year
1945
Reference
19902
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1945
Reference
19902
Media type
Audio
Series
U series
Duration
00:07:09
Broadcast Date
06 Feb 1945
Credits
RNZ Collection
Proudfoot, John, 1914-1998

Personal messages from members of No. 1 New Zealand Port Detachment, operating at an Egyptian port in Suez. Messages were to be played on the radio in New Zealand.
Messages to loved ones from:
Captain Tommy Ross of Wellington;
Driver Russell Boyd of Wellington;
Lance Corporal Tyndall Harman of Christchurch;
Gunner Bruce Cornish of Dunedin;
Private Jack Arlidge of Waipukurau;
Private Keith McGregor of Christchurch;
Private Frank Woodgyer of Palmerston North;
Corporal Arthur Watkins of Auckland;
Private Gordon Gill of Christchurch;
Private Ernest Chester of Shannon;
Private Keith McFetridge of Puru;
Sergeant-Major Ray Gibson of Wanganui.