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Australian and New Zealand soldiers, Korea

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Australian and New Zealand soldiers, Korea

In October 1951 this group of Kiwi and Aussie soldiers, serving with the United Nations force in the Korean War, posed in front of a sign outside Anzac Park, which they had built to play rugby and football on.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: K-0457-F

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Philippa Mein Smith, Australia and New Zealand – Defence and security, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33131/australian-and-new-zealand-soldiers-korea (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Philippa Mein Smith, published 20 March 2012.