Z1 Courier

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Place
[place of publication not identified]
Other Id
912 (Presto content ID)
D745.2 (Library of Congress Call Number)
1082 (Cat ID)
S 1280 (DBTextworks system ID)
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serial
Name/Title
Z1 Courier
Contributor/Publisher
[Magazine Committee]
Place
[place of publication not identified]
Date
1940
Physical Description
v. ; 21 cm.
Serial Holdings
Current Holdings: v.1no.4(Feb 1940)
Level of Current Record
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Subject Category
Ship newspapers--New Zealand
Transports--New Zealand
New Zealand. Army--Military life--Periodicals
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New Zealand troopship magazine. Edited by E.B. Moore Inscription on front cover: R.S. Herrick. On the Tears on Greenstone memorial at Waiouru, Roy Somerville Herrick is listed as Second Lieutenant, 4 Field Regiment, NZ Artillery, and his place and date of death listed as Crete, February 6 1941, aged 26 years. Prior to enlisting he was a traffic officer. Z1 formed part of the convoy which carried troops of the First Echelon of 2NZEF (354 officers and 6175 other ranks).
They embarked on 5 January 1940 for the Middle East in "Empress of Canada", "Strathaird", "Orion" and "Rangitata" at Wellington, and in "Dunera" and "Sobieski" at Lyttelton. The convoy reached Port Tewfik (Suez) on 12 February 1940 and the troops disembarked and entrained for Maadi Camp.
Collection Type
New Zealand Serials
Last Update
16 May 2024

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