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Greetings from the Camel Corps, 1917

The above image is from a christmas card, collected in a scrapbook created by Sergeant Gordon Stuart Watt, (service number 13/2628). Watt was a signaller attached to the Auckland Mounted Rifles and served in Gallipoli and Palestine. The scrapbook contains official communiques, personal papers and various oddments picked up from the places he served in and visited.

 

Archives New Zealand Reference: ACID 24605 WA253 Box 1/ [1]

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