TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cox,Peter
AU  - Gordon,John
AU  - Rogers,Anna
TI  - Good luck to all the lads: the wartime story of Brian Cox, 1939-43 
SN  - 0473139499
AV  - D811 .C68C68 2008
U1  - 940.5423092 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Christchurch, N.Z.
PB  - J.J. Angerstein & Associates
KW  - Cox, Brian,
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Army
KW  - Battalion (Machine Gun), 27
KW  - History
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Greece
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Good luck to all the lads". Brian Cox wrote those words in his diary on 26 August 1940, just before he and his mates from 9 Platoon of 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion experience enemy action for the first time in the Western Desert. Good Luck To All The Lads is the story of Brian Cox and his schoolmates from Nelson College and of 9 Platoon during the Second World War. This moving and fascinating book written by Brian's son Peter Cox, covers the men's time training in New Zealand and Egypt, the action they saw in Greece, Libya and the Western Desert. It is a memorial to the young men, many of them from Nelson College, who bravely served, and sometimes died, so far from home
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