New Zealand soldiers at Trieste, 1945

Hi Ellen - we have a bit more here: /war/the-italian-campaign/faenza-trieste but your best bet is the official history: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-2Ita.html Regards, Jamie Mackay.

My father was in the 13th Battalion which went into Trieste in the war and I wondered if you have some information on this battalion and where they went as we are going to Trieste next April and I really would like to see where he had been. His name was Alfred Stephen Fisher.

Many thanks Ellen Ansell

It is a great web-page,although, I would like to see a little more details. Question: Why did the soldiers of the 2nd NZ Division handed over the German soldiers of the Trieste garrison to the Tito forces? After all, the Germans insisted on the surrenduring to New Zealanders, not to Yugoslavs.