New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion

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New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion
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Country: New Zealand
Service: New Zealand Army
Branch: New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Type: Machine gun corp
Specific type: unknown
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Personal narratives

John Walter (Jack) Thomas

C Company 13th Reinforcements. No 3 Company NZ Machine Gun Corp.

[1], 1915-1918, by by Jack Thomas (Service No 24247 ), Alexander Turnbull Library (MS-Papers-1543)

Letters home to his younger sister Annie Thomas (later Payne). Papers also include letters from brothers George (Service No: 6/367) and Frank (Service No: 35504) and family friend Alick McKay (Service No: 24195)

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