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Scenes in the Sangro River region, Italy, including the Signal Office and signalmen
- Date
- 4 Dec 1943
- Reference
- PA1-q-388-15
- Description
Scenes taken in the Sangro River region, Italy, on the 4th of December 1943, by Len W Harrington Hutchings, a New Zealand unit photographer during World War II. Includes:
92 - Signal Office
93 - Corporal Trebilco testing signal lines
94 - The instrument mechanic's truck, including: from left to right: W R Small (behind, in the dark), Corporal W McClelland (with headphones on), and T G Brown.
95 - (From left to right?) Captain Brash, Captain J Wilton, and WOI J H Pettigrew watching bombing around Castelfrentano.
96 - ELS office, the Post Office of the Division.
97 - Sangro River with German `S' mines lifted out of the river bank and the road. The pontoon bridge in the centre was built by New Zealand sappers.
98 - Outside the Signal Office: Sergeant Bert Bezar (left?), and Ken Rigby.
99 - Jocky Francis, signalman at the forward telephone centre.
Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s) on album page.
Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints on black paper
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- Part of
- Hutchings, Len :Photographs, albums, letters and ephemera items relating to World War II / Hutchings, Len :Album entitled 'The road to Rome'
- Format
- 8 b&w original photographic print(s) on album page, Photographs, Silver gelatin prints on black paper
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UnknownSangro River, Italy, and German `S' mines
Date: 4 Dec 1943
From: Hutchings, Len :Photographs, albums, letters and ephemera items relating to World War II
Reference: PA1-q-388-15-97
Description: Sangro River, Italy, with German `S' mines lifted out of the river bank and the road. The pontoon bridge in the centre was built by New Zealand sappers. Photograph taken on the 4th of December 1943, by Len W Harrington Hutchings, a New Zealand unit photographer during World War II. Source of descriptive information - Accompanying text on page facing album page Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) on album page. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print