Discharge. Boarded Palmerston North 31 December 1945. Placed in Area 6 Pool pending discharge mid 1946

Lance Sergeant V. J. Jorgensen, MM; Feilding; born Wellington, 8 Mar 1922; shop assistant. (Source: Cody, J.F. NZ Engineers, Middle East. p.684.)

'The lesson of the Cassino road-destroying heavyweight missiles had been learnt, for these planes were dropping small fragmentation bombs. For an hour they followed overhead, wave after wave, scattering 2000 tons of exploding metal. Then the guns, hundreds of guns, opened fire and the ground shook and the air quivered with the speeding shells. Then the fighter-bombers dived on their targets, then more gunfire, then more planes…. But there was still something new to come. At last light Wasps and Crocodiles rushed up the floodbank to spew streams of liquid flame across the river. Finally the steel curtain of the barrage, after blasting awhile on the far bank, moved forward and the infantry, hidden in the dust and smoke, quickly crossed the river on rafts and kapok bridges; it was then the turn of the sappers.

Major Lindell's plan was for 7 Field Company's No. 1 Platoon (Captain Berry) to search the far stopbank for mines (in the doing of which Corporal Jorgensen laid the foundations for an MM), then place and blow a series of charges along a grade that would assist the dozer operator in the formation of a route for wheels and tracks over the obstruction. No. 2 Platoon (Lieutenant Lawson) would build the high and No. 3 Platoon (Lieutenant Annabell) the low-level Baileys on 5 Brigade front. ' (Source: Cody, J.F. NZ Engineers, Middle East. p. 684.) AWMM