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Kōrero: Anglican Church

Army chaplain, 1942

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Army chaplain, 1942

Anglican padre (military chaplain) J. T. Holland holds a Christmas Day service for New Zealand army personnel in Nofilia, Libya, in 1942. He has improvised an altar by draping a Union Jack over the back of a military jeep parked on the beach.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

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

Reference: DA-09740

by C. A. Churchill

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan K. Davidson, Anglican Church – Church debate and dissent, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27678/army-chaplain-1942 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan K. Davidson, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.