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Territorials Leave For Canterbury Exercise

In the hills behind Loburn, another well-known New Zealand fruit-growing district in Canterbury, Nelson members of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment took part in an exercise involving guerilla warfare last month. Before they left on what was to be a very thorough and tough exercise, we got these pics of the boys.

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Ready to em-bus

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Captain Rex Dodson, O. C, D Company, checks the equipment of Dennis Straford and Brian Neamel

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Noel Hancock, a radio operator, faced a 42-mile walk with about 851b of equipment on his back.