Story: First World War

Ship-board drill, 1917

Members of the 23rd Reinforcements practise the use of bayonets on board HMNZT Ruapehuin 1917.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, G. K. Neill Collection (PAColl-1747)

Reference: 1/4-061223-F

by Gordon Kirkpatrick Neill

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Ian McGibbon, First World War – Initial response, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34109/ship-board-drill-1917 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian McGibbon, published 16 April 2012.