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70 years ago this month

For most of June the Battalion are at Arce, north-west of Cassino. CO Lt-Col Young is keeping them occupied and out of mischief. The American’s have occupied Rome. Read the war diary for June 1944 here.

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Whetu Ereatara

Whetu Ereatara (Hāmua, Ngāi Tūhoe) from Rūātoki sits down to a hangi-cooked Christmas dinner at the Māori Training Depot in Maadi Camp, Egypt.

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Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996. W Ereatara sits down to Christmas Dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi, Egypt - Photograph taken by George Robert Bull. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-04884-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22681589

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