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Kōrero: First World War

Sad farewells

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Sad farewells

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)

Reference: 1/1-008392-G

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ian McGibbon, First World War – Initial response, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34108/sad-farewells (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian McGibbon, i tāngia i te 16 April 2012.