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The Whanganui component of the 258-strong Railway Engineers contingent that took part in the occupation of German Samoa, photographed before boarding their train to Wellington on 10 August 1914.
Auckland Weekly News, 20 August 1914
Auckland City LibrariesRef: AWNS-19140820_p044_i003_b
'Railway Engineers leaving Whanganui, 1914', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/railway-battalion-engineers-leaving-whanganui-1914, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 12-May-2015
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