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Rarotongan ammunition handlers

Rarotongan ammunition handlers

Rarotongan soldiers standing next to artillery shells, about 1916–18. During the British advance through Palestine the New Zealand Rarotongan Company were used as ammunition handlers attached to No. 97 Heavy Battery, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: F-66834-1/2
Collection: L F Wilson
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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