Shortly after midnight the New Zealand rearguard passes Myloi

27 April 1941 Proven

Shortly after midnight on 27 April 1941 the rear party of the New Zealand Division, the 6th Brigade, passed Myloi going south towards Tripoli. After that there was nothing between the flying boat in the bay and the advancing Germans.

Where

Myloi (the village), Junction with the Tripoli road

Threads

War and occupation

Certainty

Proven confirmed by primary sources

Sources

• H. M. Wilson (Field-Marshal Lord Wilson), Eight Years Overseas 1939–1947, London: Hutchinson 1950, pp. c. 95–98 Open (opens in a new tab)
• W. G. McClymont, To Greece (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War), Wellington 1959, p. 427 Open (opens in a new tab)

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