The first large group of Gallipoli wounded to return to New Zealand arrived in Wellington on the troopship Willochra as part of a draft of around 300 men.
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Main image: Red Cross train, 1915
Wounded men returnign from Gallipoli who lived in North Island towns along the Main Trunk Line were transported home from Wellington by New Zealand's first-ever military 'Red Cross Train'.
