Main Body of NZEF sails to war
16 October 1914
left Wellington to go war, on board there were around
8,500 men and 4,000 horses. This was the second
MAJOR departure for the first world war after the
Samoa Advance Force. Over 30,000 people attended
the farewell in Wellington, there were others in Auckland
and Christchurch.
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