Postcard From Charles Massey World War One 1915

S29/315. Mt. Ngaruhoe [Ngauruhoe], N.Z.

MAORILAND POSTCARD CARTE POSTALE
CORRESPONDENCE  ADDRESS
TANNER BROS LTD.
WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND AND LONDON.

TAUHERENIKAU MILITARY CAMP N.Z.  28.00.15.10.30AM

Oct. 27th 1915 Taurehenikau
Pt C.F. Massey

Dear Biddie
We are leaving here at seven oclock in the morning for Trentham. We have got to march over the Rimutaka two days march. We don’t know for sure when we are leaving Wellington some say the 13th nobody seems to know yet for sure. Will write when they tell us.

Miss E. Massey
C/- G.R. Beamish. Esq
Whana,
Hastings,
Hawkes Bay

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Description

Postcard is from the postcard album of Elsie Massey, a girl living on Whana Whana Station, also known as Dot or Biddie. The station cook, Tom Rouse, bought her the album in January 1911 and her collection of postcards and photos includes the First World War. This one is from her brother Charles Massey.

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27 October 1915

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633060

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