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Monty Claude Fairbrother
Serial No:
7192
Surname:
Fairbrother
Forename(s):
Monty Claude
Rank:
Brigadier
Address on enlistment:
C/o P.O. Box 61, Invercargill, New Zealand|P.O. Box 61, Invercargill, New Zealand
Date of death:
Feb-97
Place of death:
New Zealand
Notes:
This article appeared in the April 1990 NZ 28 Maori Battalion Golden Jubilee Reunion booklet.
7th C.O. - FAIRBROTHER, M.C. (Monty), CBE, DSO, ED, MID
Born Carterton, 21st September 1907. Brigade Major of 5th Brigade during some of its toughest fighting June 1942 - April 1943 - was successively C.O. of 21, 23 and 28 Battalions April - December 1943, when after leading the Maori Battalion in its first action in Italy, he was ordered out of the line to catch a furlough draft bound for New Zealand. Monty had been an original of 20 Battalion. He was C.O. of 26 Battalion when hostilities ended.
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