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70 years ago this month
May 1942 the Battalion is still at Arsal in the Syrian foothills undertaking exercises and manoeuvres. Major Tiwi Love becomes the first Māori commander of the unit. Read the war diary for May 1942 here
Arriving home in 1946
Members of the 28th Māori Battalion crowd the deck of the troop ship Dominion Monarch as it arrives in Wellington on 23 January 1946. The Dominion Monarch was a luxurious 27,155-ton Shaw, Savill & Albion liner that had been launched in 1938 and was converted into a troop ship in 1940. After the war the ship was a familiar sight on the UK-Australasia routes until 1962.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Reference no: 1/4-001635-F
Photographer: John Pascoe
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its Timeframes website.
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.
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Submitted by mbadmin on Thu, 23/04/2009 - 16:40. 
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