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A mother farewells her soldier son

George William Ladd Thomson, a sergeant in the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is farewelled by his mother. He served in the New Zealand Medical Corps and left Wellington along with the 1st Reinforcements aboard 10 troopships on 16 October 1914.

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First World War farewells

Keywords

WW1

WW1 home front

Credit

Auckland War Memorial Museum
Reference: MS Colln - George William Ladd Thomson, MS 20003/72

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'A mother farewells her soldier son', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/mother-farwells-her-soldier-son, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 4-May-2015