The 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the New Zealand Military Forces, formed during the Second World War in October 1942 from the remnants of the 4th New Zealand Infantry Br
Soldiers of the 18th Armoured Regiment, with a Sherman ready to cross the Po River in Italy.
20th Battalion (New Zealand)
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The 20th Battalion was a formation of the New Zealand Military Forces which served, initially as an infantry battalion and then as an armoured regiment, during the Second World War as part of the 2nd
4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade
…was disbanded when a decision was made to convert the 4th Brigade. By the time it deployed to Italy in October 1943, the brigade included the 18th and 20th armoured regiments, and the 22nd Motorised Battalion, which included an anti-tank company. The armoured regiments were organized along British lines…
Infantry of the 20th Battalion in Baggush, Egypt, September 1941
A crashed German glider on Crete
Lieutenant Colonel Howard Karl Kippenberger (left), who was the commanding officer of the 20th Battalion from its formation until late 1941, with Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham, Egypt, October/November 1941
An ambulance damaged by a shell during the breakout at Minqar Qaim