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Tales from Te Papa episode 118: World War I Letters from the Front

Photograph of Private H. J. Rolfes
Photograph of Private H. J. Rolfes, 1916, New Zealand. Crown Studios (Christchurch) Gift of Phyllis Rolfes, 1974. Te Papa
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Twelve thousand New Zealand soldiers died in World War I. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in remembering the soldiers who lost their lives so far from home. The mementoes of one soldier represent those who were not able to leave anything behind to tell of where, when and how they died.

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