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Troopship Aquitania
Farewelling troops at Lyttelton, 1940
Military parade outside Parliament, 1940
VE Day celebrations at Parliament
General Freyberg
The War Administration
The Maori Battalion in Sora, Italian campaign
Barrington's 'peace caravan'
Conscientious Objectors at Hautu Detention Camp, 1943
Polish immigrant children
Polish and kiwi children playing
After a German air raid on London, 1940
Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu in 1940
Michael Joseph Savage
Kitty Kain, Vida Jowett and Ruth Herrick
The Freyberg Cup
Handmade Mah Jong set
Home Guard armband
Archie Barrington discusses conscientious objection
