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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
Forward party under shellfire in Egypt, 1941
Māori Battalion troops in the North African desert keep low as a shell explodes in front of them. Men in the open were dangerously exposed to shellfire.
See a photo of the Battalion training in the use of a mortar.
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Alexander Turnbull LibraryReference: DA-0157
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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Submitted by mbadmin on Mon, 22/06/2009 - 09:46. 
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