It was a hundred years ago two months ago that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played the decisive role in capturing Rafa (9 January 1917), the-then last remaining Ottoman outpost in the Sinai Peninsula. Damien Fenton delves into the Sinai-Palestine campaigns of the First World War during 1916-1917.
Recent stories from Nights
Get the RNZ app
for easy access to all your favourite programmes
