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Washing clothes on HMS Philomel

Recruits from the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy washing clothes aboard the depot ship HMS Philomel at Devonport, Auckland, in the late 1930s.

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clothing
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Image courtesy Albert Martin

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'Washing clothes on HMS Philomel', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/washing-clothes-hms-philomel, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 2-Sep-2014

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