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Soldier and local woman

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Soldier and local woman

Contact with local women was an accepted part of overseas service for New Zealand military personnel. Here a New Zealand soldier and a woman (possibly a prostitute) are shown in the Wagh el Birket, Cairo’s red-light district in about 1940.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection (PAColl-4161)

Reference: DA-14051

by Graham Walter Dudding

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Jane Tolerton, Sexual health – Sexual health, 1914–1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27211/soldier-and-local-woman (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 30 March 2011.