One young volunteer who signed up to fight in World War I would have been labelled an "enemy alien" back then.
Rizk Alexander was from the Mt Lebanon area of Syria, then a province of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
He left home as a teenager to join his older brother in Wellington.
When war was declared, he wanted a chance to fight the Turks occupying his homeland, so he volunteered.
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