Harold Gear Paton was a New Zealand photographer active in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II.
A member of NZ Divisional Cavalry demonstrates rugby football
to Syrian tribesmen during a visit to villagers in the Syrian hills, 26 May 1942
A Syrian family resting by the roadside, 30 April 1942
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets officers of the New Zealand
Division following the parade held outside Tripoli, Libya, on 4 February 1943
Divisional Signals office during action in the Western Desert, January 1943
Finale of a Kiwi Concert Party performance in El Alamein, Egypt,
just before the opening of the successful offensive of October 1942
Italian prisoners of war being issued with water by NZers in Tunisia, 7 April 1943
Looking out of a dugout at El Alamein, Egypt, 29 August 1942
Members of Maori Battalion and transport outside the
Benito Gate at Tripoli, Libya, 10 February 1943
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Members of NZ Divisional Cavalry (officers and NCOs) visit
native villagers in Syrian hills, 26 May 1942
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand