Maori soldier reading letters at Christmas in the Western Desert

The Maori Battalion advancing in the Western Desert

Christmas dinner for NZ Division in the Western Desert

Christmas with the NZ Division in the Western Desert, Egypt

Soldiers of the Maori Battalion training in the Western Desert, Egypt

Maori Infantry advances in the Western Desert, World War II

Cook at a stove in the Western Desert

New Zealanders in the Western Desert receive Christmas parcels from NZ

Artillery training in the Western Desert

NZ engineers in the Western Desert

NZ engineers in the Western Desert

Maori soldier with a bayonet in the Western Desert, during World War II - Photograph taken by H Paton

NZ draughtsman at work underground in the Western Desert

World War II, Maori soldiers, Western Desert, North Africa

NZEF troops training in the Western Desert

Members of the Maori Battalion in the Western Desert, North Africa, during World War II

NZ engineers blacksmithing in the Western Desert

Italian plane exploding in the Western Desert, Western Desert, during World War 2

Underground orderly room in the Western Desert

NZ engineers surveying in the Western Desert

New Zealand soldier washing his socks in the sea at Baggush, Western Desert, during World War 2

Two NZ officers at work in office dugout in the Western Desert

World War II soldier during a military exercise in the Western Desert,North Africa

Mechanised Transport maintenance in the Western Desert

NZ transport drivers lunching in the Western Desert