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Members of the Whakarongo Home Guard, which was set up during World War Two, sitting on the back of a truck and manning a checkpoint on the Ashhurst-Palmerston North road, near Raukawa Road. The man second from right is Arthur Koehler.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Pg 42
Date
1940 to 1945
Digitisation ID
2007N_Pg42_WAR_0021
Held In
"Coolstore"

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war,
war on the home front,
wwii,
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