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Arthur Richard Fitzherbert

Arthur Richard Fitzherbert

Photograph of Trooper Arthur Richard Fitzherbert of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, published in the Auckland Weekly News, 26 April 1917. Fitzherbert was the oldest person to serve in the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade during the First World War. Aged 63, he died on 27 March 1917 of wounds suffered the previous day during the First Battle of Gaza.

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: N-P 1514-45
Photographer: unidentified
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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