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Kōrero: Military and sport

Football in the Western Desert, Egypt

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Football in the Western Desert, Egypt

Men of a New Zealand artillery battery play football against opponents from a British artillery battery in Egypt's Western Desert, around November 1942. The British won 4–0. Even such impromptu games against other units were played with keen intensity.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, War History Collection (DA-01514)

Reference: DA-02765-F

by Harold Gear Paton

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 – Second World War and after, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38726/football-in-the-western-desert-egypt (accessed 25 June 2026).

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