Solesmes

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-008-2

Description: Shows a railway bridge across the Selle River. Also shows a building with a spire in the background. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 78 x 152 mm on page 325 x 260 mm

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-013-1

Description: Front view of Hotel de Ville (town hall) and adjoining church showing contrasts in styles Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 162 x 182 mm

Date: 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-013-2

Description: Front view of a church in Solesmes on the day Armistice was signed (11/11/1918) Artist's note reads: In early morning received news that Armistice was to be signed at 11 am. At 9 we left to march back to Beauvois. Not a drink in sight! O London!. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 156 x 149 mm

Date: During World War I

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

Reference: 1/1-002085-G

Description: NZ 2nd Field Ambulance hospital interior during an offensive, (Solesmes, France ?). Taken during World War I by Henry Armytage Sanders. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1261 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 31 Oct 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013685-G

Description: An interior view of a church in Solesmes, France, showing damage sustained during fighting in the town during World War I. There are debris around the altar and the walls are pitted by shrapnel? Photograph taken 31 October 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is at album PA1-f-092. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1129 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 28 Oct 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013672-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers sit eating lunch out of mess tins after an attack in France towards the end of World War I. They appear to be in a garden of a French dwelling near the town of Solesmes. Photograph taken 28 October 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. According to J Cowan (in "Maori in the Great war,"page 150) Solesmes was the first village occupied that had civilians living in it. Hence the vegetables in the garden. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1115 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 11 November 1918]

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

Reference: 1/2-013778-G

Description: New Zealand Division leaving the town of Solesmes, France, after the armistice ending World War I. Shows rows of troops marching along a cobbled street. Photograph taken ca late November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-f-092 Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads "NZ Division leaving Solesmes after the Armistice" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1231 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 11 November 1918]

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

Reference: 1/2-013780-G

Description: New Zealand Division leaving the town of Solesmes, France, after the armistice ending World War I. Shows rows of troops marching along a cobbled street. Photograph taken ca late November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-f-092 Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads "Last of the NZ Division leaving Solesmes after the Armistice" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1233 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1918

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-075

Description: Shows a view along a town street with civilians in the foreground: men smoking pipes, a woman holding a baby, and two women in aprons talking together. Beyond is a line of soldiers and a large group of soldiers massed together. On either side of the street are three-storey buildings with tricolor flags displayed. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: 1 Nov 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013689

Description: A group of German prisoners of war walking down a street in the French town of Solesmes near the end of World War I. They are watched by a group of local inhabitants including a woman holding a baby. Photograph taken 1 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is at album PA1-f-092. Caption - "Showing baby the Boche." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1134 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1918

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-073

Description: Shows a view along a crowded street, with the town hall of Solesmes in the background. A French flag flies at top left, and the street is filled with soldiers wearing packs, and onlookers. There is a line of covered carts on the right side of the street. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: [ca 11 November 1918]

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

Reference: 1/2-013776-G

Description: New Zealand Division leaving the town of Solesmes, France, after the armistice ending World War I. Shows an army band leading a column of marching troops through a cobbled street. Photograph taken around late November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-f-092 Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads "NZ Division leaving Solesmes after the Armistice Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1229 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 11 November 1918]

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

Reference: 1/2-013777-G

Description: New Zealand Division leaving the town of Solesmes, France, after the armistice ending World War I. Shows rows of troops marching along a cobbled street. Photograph taken ca late November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-f-092 Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads "NZ Division leaving Solesmes after the Armistice" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1230 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 30 Oct 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013687-G

Description: The remains of a bridge spanning rail tracks that was blown up by retreating German troops in World War I. Photograph taken near Solesmes, France 30 October 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-092 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1132 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 9 Nov 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013663-G

Description: Soldiers from a Wellington Regiment sit eating a meal out of mess tins in the French town of Solesmes during World War I. They use broken pieces of masonry as seats and tables. Photograph taken 9 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is at album PA1-f-092. Caption - "Wellington boys at dinner." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1106 In contrast to the date (9 November) in the official photograph albums, the history of the Wellington Regiment by Cunningham, Treadwell, and Hanna (see page 392, paragraph two) recordes the first two Wellington battalions leaving Villereau for Solesmes on the afternoon of 10 November 1918. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca November 1918]

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

Reference: 1/2-013782-G

Description: New Zealand Division Transport watering mules at Solesmes, France. Photograph taken ca late November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-f-092 Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads "NZ Transport watering mules at Solesmes." Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1235 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1918

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-074

Description: Shows a view along a narrow slightly curved street, lined with three-storeyed buildings and shop verandahs. Soldiers and civilians walk in the streets and there is a line of covered carts on the right side. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: 22 November 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013669-G

Description: Soldiers stand around a New Zealand field cooker, Solesmes, France. Taken 22 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Transcibed from back of file print: " A New Zealand cooker in a village recently captured by the enemy" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1112 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 9 Nov 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013666-G

Description: The aged town crier of Solesmes in France reading war news to local people in a village captured by New Zealanders in World War I. Photograph taken 9 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-092 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1108 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches