GVR Story
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W Volume On The Way
ar History Will Tell GVR Story
new volume of Australian • history, soon to go to the iters, will describe in detail work of the New Guinea lunteer Rifles in the war
inst the Japs.
[IS is revealed by Mr. Gavin Long, general editor of the Official War History, in a letter PIM. Mr. Long’s letter replies ne from a NG reader, published UM of February, p. 29. r. Long says: your February number you e a letter from a reader who caches war historian Lionel more for not recording enough lis volume of the official war )ry about the New Guinea nteer Rifles. t did wonderful service in dau 1, Salamaua, Lae and ang”, your correspondent wrote, war history of New Guinea be complete unless this little m unit gets its worth also in b. . ” y fellow-writers and I who are :ing on the war history couldn’t e more. le point is that Lionel Wig i’s book necessarily included the part played by the NGVR tfew Britain. It was read in t form by an ex-NGVR officer ared at Rabaul who was un to add to the account. le next volume, which will go le printer as soon as the maps finished, probably in May, will :ibe, in a good deal of detail, : the NGVR (and others not be Rifles) did when the Jap
anese came to the mainland of New Guinea in 1942. volume will be Dudley Me-
Cathy’s “South-West PaciScf First
Year”. As some of y° ur readers know, Dudley McCarthy worked in jj ew Guinea in the thirties and c PrV pd there in the war To freshen * e p h e “ Emories he wllked over the TCnkoda track anri the Wan- Salamaua talcte a few years ago. account of the NGVR in New Guinea and Papua until April 1943 J® based not only on the documents on long talks and exchanges °f letters with a good many former Riflemen.