BUILDING AN ARMY-Scenes at a training camp near Wellington. Top left, repairs to a 4.5 howitzer. Centre left, assembling and charging recuperators for 18-pounder equipment. Bottom left, officers in training. Top centre, port arms position for inspection by trainees of the 24th Wing Infantry, Army School of Instruction. Below, some of the men marching. Top right, training in the handling of 18-pounders by Special Reservists. Centre right, painting steel helmets. Bottom right, building sentry boxes, by a Special Reserve vocational training squad.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 16
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82BUILDING AN ARMY-Scenes at a training camp near Wellington. Top left, repairs to a 4.5 howitzer. Centre left, assembling and charging recuperators for 18-pounder equipment. Bottom left, officers in training. Top centre, port arms position for inspection by trainees of the 24th Wing Infantry, Army School of Instruction. Below, some of the men marching. Top right, training in the handling of 18-pounders by Special Reservists. Centre right, painting steel helmets. Bottom right, building sentry boxes, by a Special Reserve vocational training squad. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 16
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