Officers of all the units which arrived in Crete from Greece await the arrival of Major General ...

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Accession Number 069890
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Greece: Crete, Suda Bay
Date made April 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Officers of all the units which arrived in Crete from Greece await the arrival of Major General Sir Bernard C Freyberg, VC, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, Commander in Chief, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who is to address them, Major General Sir Bernard Freyberg had taken over the command of the defences to Crete under orders from General Sir Archibald Wavell, GCB, CMG, MC, on the 29th April.