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Soldiers, probably of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, 1 New Zealand Expeditionary Force, occupy a trench on Table Top, Gallipoli during the night of 6 August 1915 in preparation for the attack on Chunuk Bair. Photograph by James Cornelius Read.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/4-058131; F
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