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A group of about fifteen soldiers holding picks and planks of wood are shown practising digging trenches. It was probably taken at the Awapuni Racecourse, which was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Zealand Medical Corps. staff.

Identification

Object type
Image
Identifier
2018-44
Date
1914 to 1918
Digitisation ID
2018P_2018-44_025446
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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army,
awapuni military camp,
awapuni racecourse,
military,
pick,
trench,
world war one,
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