After Four Tough
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Years
Corporal Webb is Back in Rarotonga
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Feb. 10.
A TRADER who has been well known in the Eastern Pacific for over 30 years, Mr. 1 J. H. Webb, of Rarotonga, recently welcomed his son, Corporal Jack Webb, home after four years in the Middle East.
Jack Webb, who was employed in the
New Zealand Post Office, joined up on the day war was declared. He left New Zealand with the First Echelon of NZ Forces, and took part in Wavell’s push across the Western Desert- Then fol lowed Greece and Crete. The Syrian campaign found him again in the thick of the fighting.
He was with the New Zealanders at Sidi Rezegh when they burst through that trap. He was at El Alamein, and finished the campaign, right through to Tunisia.
On his return to New Zealand, on fur lough, Corporal Webb went before a medical board and was discharged as unfit for further overseas service, having been seriously wounded three times. He is now back in Rarotonga at his father’s citrus plantation at Nikao, where an open-air life and rest will make him fit again.
Cpl. J. Webb.