War, occupation, civil war · War and occupation
General Freyberg moves to a new headquarters near Myloi
25 April 1941 Proven
Early on 25 April 1941 Major-General Bernard Freyberg, commander of the New Zealand Division, was on his way to 'a new headquarters near Miloi'. In the next days Myloi was described as the headquarters of both W Force and the New Zealand Division.
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Pictures
Greece, 1941, in the field: Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Blamey, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Major General Bernard Freyberg (left to right). Australian War Memorial 128425 · public domain
Sources
- Gavin Long, Greece, Crete and Syria (Australia in the War of 1939–1945), Canberra 1953, ch. 7 Open (opens in a new tab)
- W. G. McClymont, To Greece (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War), Wellington 1959, p. 422 Open (opens in a new tab)
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28 December 1940
A soldier born in Myloi dies in the military hospital of Mesolongi
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1941–1942
A second German reconnaissance flight photographs the bay
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1941–1943
A coastal gun near the tower of Bouboulina
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