To mark the 70th anniversary of the 28 Māori Battalion's part in the Second World War we provided detailed monthly accounts of their activities derived from the original war diaries. These have never been published before.
Pressured by Winston Churchill for action, in November the Western Desert Force, renamed the Eighth Army, readied itself to make a third attempt to lift the siege of Tobruk, where an Australian division had been cut off since April.
The first half of August was spent at Kabrit on the Bitter Lake portion of the Suez Canal in Egypt where with the rest of 5 Brigade the Māori Battalion underwent three weeks’ combined operations training