NZEF Main Body Departs
Announcement Date: 16/10/1914
The NZEF Main Body departs Wellington on 10 troops ships.
8454 soldiers and approximately 3000 horses arrive in Egypt on the 3rd December and set up camp in Zeitoun, near Cairo.
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Wellington: Embarkation of troops W.W.1.,Unknown, photographer,1910’s, Auckland War Memorial Museum