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Playing rugby at Fontaine-au-Pire, October 1918

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Playing rugby at Fontaine-au-Pire, October 1918

New Zealand soldiers play rugby at Fontaine-au-Pire, France, on 12 October 1918. The game is clearly an impromptu one among soldiers relaxing away from the firing line, rather than any sort of serious unit competition.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Collection

Reference: 1/2-013634-G

by Henry Armytage Sanders

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

Ian McGibbon, Military and sport – South African and First World wars, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38721/playing-rugby-at-fontaine-au-pire-october-1918 (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian McGibbon, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.