Returned prisoners holding up a dog at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

NZ former prisoners wearing German hats at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

NZ former prisoners trying out German hats at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

New Zealand former prisoners of war back at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Officer directing former prisoners to hutments at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

NZ former prisoners with German military souvenirs at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Some of the NZ former prisoners of war back at NZ Base Camp, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

10th reinforcements ready to leave for base camp, Port Tewfik, Egypt, - Photograph taken by M D Elias

New Zealanders back at NZ Base Camp after imprisonment in Bardia, Libya - Photograph taken by M D Elias

New Zealanders back at NZ Base Camp after imprisonment in Bardia, Libya - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Italian prisoners embarking for Alexandria at Mersa Matruh, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

GOC Freyberg on manoeuvres, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

NZ supply column passing the wrecked Sollum barracks, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Infantry resting during exercise, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

NZ soldier with bren gun on landing exercise, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Convoy of armoured cars and portees moves up Sollum Hill, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Convoy of armoured cars and portees moves up Sollum Hill, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Patients holding grapes at 3 NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon - Photograph taken by M D Elias

General Alexander leaving the Maadi Tent, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Eagen brothers meet at Maadi Camp - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Members of NZ Base Camp Fire Unit outside their station at Maadi, Egypt - Photograph taken by George Bull

NZ troops on exercise waiting for signal to advance, Egypt - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Italian prisoners standing outside house in Tunisia - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Bringing up wire for defensive positions, Syria - Photograph taken by M D Elias

Prisoners coming in after the Axis capitulation in Tunisia - Photograph taken by M D Elias