On Anzac Day (April 25) it was announced that additional units had arrived the previous day to join formations of the Australian Imperial Forces already serving in this country, Included among the new arrivals were headquarters staff, engineers and mechanical transport units, who are going to various stations in Malaya.
Among those who watched the Australians arrive at the Nova] Base were the Commander-in-Chief, Far East, Air Chief Marshel Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Rear-Admiral T, B, Drew, and_ the Commander of the Singapore Fortress, Major-General F, Keith-Simmons.
The troops were in great spirits, They cheered and sang and as the big liner drew alongside scores of inquiries were shouted to Australian officers and men standing on the quay. Soon a shower of Australian coins began to fall on the quay and these were rapidly collected as souvenirs by the Asiatic dock staff and by Services officers and men as well This shower was followed first by apples and then by packets of cigarettes, The men of the new units are of the same splendid physique as that of the A.LF. which arrived earlier this ye were keenly loo forward to meeting their "cob-and training in Malaya,
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