IMAGE
New Zealand World War 2 soldiers playing rugby with tribesmen in Syria - Photograph taken by Harold Gear Paton
- Date
- [ca 26 May 1942]
- By
- Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010
- Reference
- DA-02506-F
- Description
New Zealand World War 2 soldiers from Divisional Cavalry playing rugby with Syrian tribesmen at a mountain village in Syria. Photograph taken by Harold Gear Paton circa 26 May 1942.
Other - Note on back of DA file print reads: "Officers and NCO's of NZ Div Cav visit a native village in the mountains of Syria. This tribe is said to have wiped out a whole company of French troops who attempted a punitive expedition against them before the war."
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- 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
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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