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26-08-16, 03:05 PM
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WW1 New Zealand troops, London...
Arrivée à Londres des troupes de la Nouvelle-Zélande (Orig.Legend)
New Zealand troops arriving in London. Click onthe pics to enlarge... http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...97b/f1.highres http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...995/f1.highres Jo
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26-08-16, 05:26 PM
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 Hi JoLes meilleurs parmi les moins nombreux!!! Je ne veux pas faire de polémique, mais ces gars là ..... !!!! Hi jo The best among the least likely !! I do not want controversy, but these guys ..!!!!
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26-08-16, 06:40 PM
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Question....how come they don't wear the "lemon squeezer"....??? Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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26-08-16, 07:00 PM
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In 1914 some New Zealand soldiers did wear the felt hat peaked /lemon squeezer style . Units that did include ,the New Zealand Field Artillery ,Otago Mounted Rifles and the Wellington Infantry Regiments .However the wearing of the ''lemon squeezer'' style didn't become universal until mid to late 1916 . The soldiers in the photo's posted are British Section NZEF .They are ''mostly'' New Zealanders who were in the UK at the outbreak of the war ,and formed a unit in the UK .They had uniforms that were distinct from that of the Main Body that sailed from New Zealand .
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26-08-16, 07:25 PM
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Here are the names of the New Zealanders who joined up in London:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....brittitle.html
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26-08-16, 08:32 PM
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26-08-16, 08:50 PM
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What Jean-Paul meant to say,in his basic english,is that Kiwis were some of the best fighters even though they were not the most numerous on the Western Front.....
Some other would say the Australians and us Canucks deserved a mention here.....after all by the end of the war, the Germans considered us (Australians and Canadians) schock troops.......troubles happening,for the Huns, whenever we showed up sowhere on the front...... Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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26-08-16, 10:24 PM
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