DescriptionScanned newspaper fragment of Trooper Arthur Whyte (11/449), who served in the First World War as a Trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles._x000D_
He was single at the time, a farmer and the son of George Whyte of Taranaki. He fought at Gallipoli, was injured in May and again in August of 1915 at Chunuk Bair (gunshot wound, right foot and ankle). He won the 191415 Star, the British War Medal, the Victory Medal.
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Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Remembering War basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Harley Couper), on 10 02, 2014.
Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/remembering_war/images/show/8977 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License.
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Year: 1914
