Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2013
After First Eora the Australians abandoned their source of air supply, the dropping zone at Myola, and fell back to Efogi. The engagement at Efogi (also called Mission Ridge and Brigade Hill) between Potts and Kusunose was fought because Potts was directed to make a stand with all his force. Potts, convinced he was heavily outnumbered, did not want to stop and fight, but Rowell told him to ‘yield no repeat no more ground and regain initiative at earliest possible moment’. Rowell judged that with the fresh 2/27th Battalion at Efogi, 3rd Battalion almost at Nauro and 2/1st Pioneer Battalion on Ioribaiwa Ridge, Potts was well placed for another attempt to stop the Nankai Shitai.
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