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Collecting winnings, 1918

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Collecting winnings, 1918

New Zealand soldiers collect their winnings from the totalisator set up at 'Happy Valley' at the gymkhana sports in Louvencourt, France, during the First World War. Soldiers gambled incessantly to while away the boredom during periods of non-fighting.

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

Reference: 1/2-013420-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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David Grant, Gambling – Cards and games, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39430/collecting-winnings-1918 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 3 December 2012.