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Crowd at Rotorua Railway Station prior to departure of troops
for active service.
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Leaving home
to go to war was a very sad time. Many soldiers were killed and others
did not come back for a long time.
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Snow covered
battlefields near Hooge, Belgium.
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Soldiers often had to live in trenches
or long ditches to keep safe from flying bullets. In winter it was
freezing cold and muddy. Many soldiers got very sick living in the
trenches.
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Meal time in a front
line trench.
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Three members of the
New Zealand forces tramping through mud and snow at the front in Italy
during World War Two. |
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An ANZAC solider
in his uniform. |
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After the war
it took a long time to get home on the boat. |
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Soldiers on the troopship
Dunera.
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