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Friends, family and loved ones stand on the wharf, probably at Lyttelton, to farewell reinforcements about to leave for the battlefields of the First World War. The soldiers in their lemon-squeezer hats have thrown streamers to the crowds below.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, The Press (Christchurch) Collection (PAColl-3031)
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