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Wotcher, digs. Still enjoying digs' page? You are? Than if you want to see it in the future start digging into the odd corner where you could have some old diggers' pix. By the way, when forwarding them to us, please supply as much information as possible - especially the names of those (if they are Nelson district types) in the pix. O. K. Right, on with the news.

A lot of Nelson men were included in the special force sent by the N.Z. Government to occupy Samoa at the outbreak of World War 1. Dave Ross, 140 Collingwood Street, provided this one.

From the files of Keith Powell comes this shot of some after-battle inactivity in Italy.

Egypt, 1943, and from left: G. P. Dixon, Laurie Max, Jock Reid (Kaikoura) and the two Barker Brothers (Marlborough), Pix from Mrs G. P. D.

British and New Zealand troops photographed before the Mosque of Omah, Jerusalem (once more from Keith Powell's collection).

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The Nelson Photo News

No 32 : June 22, 1963

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