Army Rugby Team Members of the New Zealand Army team which defeated the Combined Services team in the final of the Services’ Rugby tournament in Egypt last Easter Monday each received a silver medal in commemoration of the event. Corporal T. K. Thomson, a well-known Rugby player of Waiuku. was in the New Zealand team in this match and has forwarded his medal to his father, Mr John Thomson, of Maioro, for safe keeping. The medal is almost two inches in diameter and has a broad flanged edge. On one side the word “Egypt” with the date beneath is ringed by a laurel wreath, and on the other the names of the competing teams are inscribed. The match was played in a temperature of nearly 80 degrees and was watched by one of the largest crowds ever seen at a Rugby match in Egypt.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 2
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