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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.
Image courtesy Albert Martin
'Washing clothes on HMS Philomel', URL: /media/photo/washing-clothes-hms-philomel, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 2-Sep-2014
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