New Zealand - WW2
- New Zealand soldiers on leave standing at official hitch hiking point in Cairo, World War II
- Photograph by G Kaye
- New Zealand soldiers on leave standing at one of the official hitch hiking points in Cairo during World War II. Official recognition of hitch hiking has partly solved the problem of transport from Maadi to Cairo for leave personnel.
New Zealand World War 2
- The population of New Zealand in 1940 was about 1,600,000.
- About 140,000 New Zealand men and women served.
- Fatal casualties: 11,928 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission figures)
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Image source: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004. New Zealand soldiers on leave standing at official hitch hiking point in Cairo, World War II - Photograph taken by G Kaye. 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. Ref: DA-03855-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23044554
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23044554