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The Weekend Sun
Eye-opening historic book launches Historian Kelvin Crombie is launching his new book in Tauranga on Saturday, November 24 at 7pm at Holy Trinity Tauranga.
‘El Alamein halting a possible Holocaust in the Middle East’ opens eyes to the motivations behind the battles at which many fathers, uncles, brothers and grandparents fought and died in, in the deserts of Egypt and Israel.
The head of the Desert Rats, Kelvin, and Lord Vicount Montgomerie.
Living in Israel for 25 years, Kelvin researched the events of the Battle of Beer Sheva, in which ANZAC horsemen conquered the high points of the city and enabled the British to ultimately take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in 1917. In World War Two, the NZ second division of Expeditionary Forces played a major role in winning the battle of El Alamein, led by Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery. This victory defeated the plans of the German death squad despatched from Berlin to commit genocide in the Middle East and take the Suez Canal. Kelvin tracked down a Bible which the Jewish leadership of Israel had given to General Montgomery after the victory at El Alamein. The citation inside read: “Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery, the gallant leader of the victorious British forces by whose hand God has placed salvation in Zion in the days of El Alamein.” Kelvin placed the historic Bible in a museum he established at Christ Church in Jerusalem’s Old City, and used it when lecturing Israeli groups about non-Jewish involvement in the restoration of Israel. Most of those gallant soldiers at El Alamein and Beer Sheva were non-Jews.
Got a problem with a health service? Age Concern is running its last seminar in to resolving a concern that otherwise could escalate into a formal complaint. To register for the seminar, the ‘Approaching Senior Years’ series phone Age Concern, 07 578 2631. on November 20. By Angela Scott, Five excellent speakers will present information and answer questions on community and hospital services for older people. The seminars are designed to help people make informed decisions about their health and enable them to plan for the future. Support for carers will be another topic explored at the seminar. Many family and friends provide an unpaid caring role covering a wide range of tasks. What are their options? What subsidised help is available and how can community organisations help and are there reliable trained carers we can pay to do the tasks we can’t manage? At the seminar many of these agencies will have display tables and will be able to supply information on their services and how to access information sites. A panel of speakers representing hospital and community consumer services will cover the topic of complaints and answer questions. Knowing who to ask early on is often the key
Age Concern Tauranga.
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