Welcome Sweet Peace: Returning home after the Great War

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Group including 'John Bull' in fancy dress during the Armistice Day celebrations in Levin



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Group including 'John Bull' in fancy dress during the Armistice Day celebrations in Levin, 13 November 1918. Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference: 1/4-023268-G

‘Goodbye England’, Photograph taken by Frederic Kingsford, A Company 23rd Reinforcements



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‘Goodbye England’, Photograph taken by Frederic Kingsford, A Company 23rd Reinforcements, on board the SS Tainui as it leaves Plymouth Sound on its return to New Zealand, 6 August 1919. Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference: PA1-o-934-062-3.

New Zealand soldiers looking towards the Hohenzollern Bridge



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New Zealand soldiers looking towards the Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, after the Great War, January 1919. Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library. Reference: 1/1-002098-G