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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
Iron Cross souvenir from Crete
Māori and Pākehā soldiers crowd around a member of the 28th Māori Battalion who proudly displays an Iron Cross souvenired from a dead or captured German soldier during the Battle for Crete.
The soldiers are at a garden party held at Maadi Camp, Egypt, in 1941 for members of 2NZEF recently evacuated from Greece and Crete.
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Alexander Turnbull LibraryReference: DA-01183-F
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image
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Submitted by mbadmin on Mon, 25/05/2009 - 12:58. 
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