Hi Tinto,
many thanks for your response.I assumed all this time they were WW1 stripes! Yes, the New Zealand Army Distinguishing Patches 1911-1991 books by Malcolm Thomas and Cliff Lord contain a wealth of information. I also imagine there wouldn't be many WW1 veterans still in a position to be wounded in 1944, i wonder if these could have been issued in the immediate years prior to the 1944 RO.
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