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World War 2 New Zealand Engineers digging graves south of Florence, Italy - Photograph taken by K G Killoh
- Date
- 2 Aug 1944
- By
- Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994
- Reference
- DA-11807
- Description
World War 2 New Zealand Engineers digging graves a a casualty clearing station near Greve, south of Florence, Italy, 2 August, 1944. Corporal Alfred James (Jim) Gower drills in the foreground. Photograph taken by K G Killoh.
Source of descriptive information - Jim Gower identified himself and the occasion, Nov 2006
The men were burying 12 soldiers killed in La Romola on the 1st of August. (Information provided by Jim Gower from Walter Edward Murphy, 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery. Part of the Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45. (Wellington, N.Z. : Historical Publications Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1966) p 626)
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- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
- Format
- Negatives
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