La Signy Farm (France)

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-0506

Description: Official photographs of the "H" series of troops and officers at the front line. They include the Duke of Windsor (later Edward VIII) and other officers on the steps of a building; a number of a civilian dignitary (possibly Lloyd George) visiting New Zealand troops; a group of men praying with a chaplain in a church graveyard; views of New Zealand troops in Cologne; and members of an army brass band. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Apr 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013094-G

Description: Three New Zealand soldiers walking down a muddy road carrying ceramic flagons of rum for issue to troops in the front line. Photograph taken La Signy Farm April 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H476 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 6 April 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013092-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers in the front line on the Somme, La Synge Farm, France, 6 April 1918. Shows soldiers in a trench. Sergeant Ormond Burton stands on a firing step in the trench wall. Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders. Source of descriptive information - File print. Ormond Burton identified by family member. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H474 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 6 April 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013089-G

Description: Some of the New Zealand soldiers who held the enemy on the Somme. The soldiers are sitting and standing in a trench. Rifles rest against the trench wall. Nearby, are three shovels standing upright in the mud. Photographed by Henry Armytage Sanders at La Singy Farm, France, on the 6th of April, 1918. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H470 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches Finding Aids: Print in Photograph Archive in War History Album PA1-f-91, print number H470..

Date: 6 Apr 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013091-G

Description: The Padre of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade operating a makeshift wayside canteen for soldiers in the front line. Shows him handing a cake to a soldier. Stretchers are prominent in the right foreground. Photograph taken La Signy Farm 6 April 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Caption - "The Padre of the NZRB has a wayside canteen with 300 yds of the line with cakes, cigarettes etc. and a cheery word for the boys in the line." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H473 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013103-G

Description: World War I New Zealand Engineers constructing a strong point on the Somme, La Synge Farm, France, 1918. Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders. Original print available in PA1-f-91. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H487 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 6 April 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013100-G

Description: New Zealand soldier using a captured enemy machine gun at the front line in France during World War I. Taken at La Synge Farm, 6 April 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is at PA1-f-91 with the caption `Hoisted with his own petard. A New Zealander using a captured enemy machine gun in the fron line' Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H-484 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches