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Story: Kiwis overseas

Stonehenge, England

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Stonehenge, England

These New Zealand officers are on leave from duty during the First World War. War took many young New Zealanders overseas for the first time. If they were lucky enough to survive, it opened their eyes to the wider British empire and the opportunities it offered to them as British citizens.

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Carl Walrond, Kiwis overseas – A nation of migrants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3973/stonehenge-england (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 17 September 2014.