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Chief of staff, 21st Army Group, shortly before D–Day, in a conversation with General Montgomery.

‘I’d feel a lot happier if the Australian 9th Division was going ashore with us.’

The Australian government had withdrawn the last of its divisions, the 9th, from the Mediterranean early in 1943 in order to reinforce their armies in the Pacific.