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Christmas telegram from Egypt

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Christmas telegram from Egypt

This telegram was sent by a New Zealand soldier in Egypt to his family in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, in December 1916. The message - 'Merry Xmas Cyril' - may have been from Cyril Walker Lowe, who was serving with the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron in the Middle East.

Credit

Auckland War Memorial Museum 
Reference: HE8429.N36 TEL
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Christmas telegram from Egypt, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/christmas-telegram-egypt, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated