These pages chart the progress of the Fifth Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, from its formation in 1940 to its battles in North Africa. Written by members of the 5th Field, this account is reproduced here with permission. You can move between the pages using the text links or by clicking on the green arrows, and , and return to this page using .

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5th Field Regiment home page (Essential reading)
Embarkation
Life on board the Aquitania
Sojurn in England
Voyage England to Egypt
Greece
Alan Jackson's Diary of Greece
Crete
Alan Jackson's Diary of Crete
Reforming the Regiment
1941 Desert Campaign
1942 Baggush - Syria
Into Battle Again: Mersa Matruh - Alam Nayil
Mingar Qaim
Miteiriya Ridge, Thompsons Promontory, Breakthrough
Bardia el Agheila, Nofilia
Beni Ulid - Tarhuna - Azizia - Tripoli
Medenine
The Left Hook and Tebaga Gap
Gabes and Wadi Akarit
Towards Takrouna
Battle at Takrouna
End of the North African Campaign
Wrapping up in North Africa
To be continued.

See also the personal accounts:

• Under fire at Sidi Rezegh by Robin Wait
• With 6 Field Regiment at Sidi Rezegh by Robin Wait
• A Gunner Subaltern's Recollections of the Italian Campaign, April 44 - May 45 by LW Wright

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