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A New Zealand Mounted Rifles trooper poses with his horse before setting off on a patrol, about 1916-17.
Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: PAColl-5456-1-06-2Photographer: Hans Hartmann Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
'Trooper and horse', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/trooper-and-horse, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Sep-2013
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Robyn Searle
Posted: 28 Apr 2014
My great Uncle Reginald Gillam Birdling from Birdlings Flat was killed in Gallipoli and his horse bought home to the farm 'Okoura' at Birdling's Flat by my Grandfather Frank Reginald Birdling.
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