Gommecourt

Date: 16 July 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013372-G

Description: Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders. Record title taken from caption for matching print in album at Library reference PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Bottom left - H777 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 4 x 5 inches

Date: 21 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013531-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers enjoying mugs of tea at a roadside YMCA canteen near the front line at Gommecourt in France during World War I. The makeshift canteen is below ground level in a support line. On the front of the canteen there is a notice with a YMCA logo and the words: 'Provided by the Lady Liverpool Committee - Masterton. Big thanks Ladies.' Photograph taken 21 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Caption - "Immediately after the advance the N.Z. Y.M.C.A. rushed up roadside canteens where cigarettes, tea, oranges were given free to all troops passing. In this picture the men are toasting the ladies of Masterton who defrayed all the expenses as have many other townships and societies of New Zealand." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H961 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 13 May 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013743-G

Description: The historic landscape of Gommecourt that suffered destruction due to its strategic position in World War I. Shows an official notice that states in French and English: 'Historical landscape of Gommecourt. Reserved by French Government. No work is to be undertaken which might alter the appearance of the locality'. Tree damage can be seen in the background as well as disturbance to the ground by entrenchment. Photograph taken 13 May 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-092 Caption - "An order the Germans did not obey in spring of 1918." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1194 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 25 Jul 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013413-G

Description: A view looking down into a trench which temporarily houses the company cookhouse of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, near the front during World War I. Helmeted soldiers prepare meals in very cramped conditions with only pieces of wood and corrugated iron above for protection. A large iron pot full of potatoes? and a meat grinder are visible in the foreground. Photograph taken near Gommecourt, France, 25 July 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H830 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 25 July 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013414-G

Description: Members of the World War I Maori Pioneer Battalion taking a break from trench improvement work near Gommecourt, France. Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders on the 25th of July, 1918. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H831 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1918

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

Reference: E-920-020

Description: Shows two views of a German tunnel on a battlefield in France. The top view shows the entrance to the tunnel from outside, and the lower view shows the interior, well constructed with a stairway some metres along on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013485-G

Description: World War 1 New Zealand trench, Gommecourt, France, 10 August, 1918. An unidentified soldier is firing at an enemy aeroplane. Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print of the negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H909 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013460-G

Description: Four World War I New Zealand soldiers in a front line trench pose beneath the sign 'The Cannibals Paradise Supply Den Beware' painted on corrugated iron in response to German propaganda that New Zealanders ate their captured prisoners. (Soldier 2nd from left may be Ted Brosnahan) Also on the trench wall is an official wooden sign 'Keep to the Trench'. Beneath this has been added another wooden sign with the message painted in capital letters 'And youl [sic] get to NZ'. Photograph taken Gommecourt Wood 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Caption - "The Diggers Wit. NZ troops skit on the German Propaganda whose prisoners if captured by the New Zealanders would have been eaten. Gommecourt 10.8.18." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H883 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 10 Oct 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013454-G

Description: Five New Zealand officers (identified as being from Wellington Battalion) shown talking in a dry front line trench in Gommecourt Wood, France, during World War I. Photograph taken 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H877 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 26 July 1918

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

Reference: 1/1-002074-G

Description: Four photographs of New Zealand soldiers in France during World War I. Top left (H838) shows soldiers putting fresh vegetables into ration bags at 2M Stores of a Wellington Regiment, Gommecourt, 28th of July 1918. Top right (H837) shows soldiers receiving their pay, Gommecourt, 1918. Bottom left (H832) shows a formal group portrait of a New Zealand Rifle Brigade raiding party with their captured weapons which include 13 machine guns photographed on the 28th of July 1918. Bottom right (H840) shows soldiers lined up at the graves of soldiers from Otago who were killed in a raid. Photographed at Gommecourt on the 26th of July 1918. Photographed by an unknown photographer in July 1918. Relationship complexity - There are other negatives for three of the images. Image H830, 1/2-013415-G. Image H837, 1/2-013420-G. Image H838, 1/2-013421-G. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Finding Aids: Prints in Photograph Archive in War History Album PA1-f-094, print numbers H832, H837, H838, and H840..

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013461-G

Description: A New Zealand sentry stands in an enclave dug into a trench wall in the front line at Gommecourt Wood during the second Somme campaign, World War I. The soldier's helmeted head is just above ground level. Photograph taken 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H884 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013458-G

Description: A large underground system once housing German soldiers and which was destroyed by New Zealand heavy artillery is marked by the retreating Germans with a cross. The cross is visible amidst the soil and collapsed timber framing. Photograph taken Gommecourt, France, 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 with the caption: "The Efficiency of Our Artillery. The large underground system that was once occupied by the Germans but was so destroyed by our heavy artillery that the Germans erected a cross on the site, thus turning their underground home into a grave." Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H881 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013484-G

Description: New Zealand troops and the tank "Jumping Jennie" in a trench at Gommecourt Wood, France, during World War 1. Photograph taken on the 10th of August, 1918, by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 with the caption: "Where 'Jumping Jennie' rested. Scene in the NZ trenches. Gommecourt Wood 10/8/18" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H908 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 28 Jul 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013411-G

Description: A general view of Gommecourt Wood in France showing the extensive damage to its trees due to heavy shelling earlier in World War I. Some regeneration is taking place. Photograph taken 28 July 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 - H828 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 25 Jul 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013419-G

Description: World War 1 New Zealand troops in a captured German trench near Gommecourt, France. Photograph taken 31 March 1918, by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 with the caption: "New Zealanders in the trenches in front of a captured commodious German dug out. Near Gommecourt 25.7.18" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H836 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-920-019

Description: Shows a view of a stand of devastated forest with many tree trunks. In the centre, one tree trunk has wooden rungs attached to it, where German soldiers have scaled the tree to an observation post. In the right foreground is the entrance to a low tunnel. The walls of a damaged church are scarcely visible in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: 10 Oct 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013455-G

Description: A New Zealand runner crawls through a front line trench in Gommecourt Wood, France, which is under machine gun fire during World War I. View along the dry trench and behind the runner. Photograph taken 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H878 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013456-G

Description: A New Zealand ration party makes its way over bombed ground to troops at the front line during World War I. Photograph taken Gommecourt Wood 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H879 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-920-035

Description: A graveyard with many crosses, the ruins of the church building and a bomb crater in the centre. Shattered dead trees surround the site Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 126 x 198 mm.

Date: 1918

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

Reference: E-920-025

Description: Two sketches, the upper one showing a German observation post within a trench. The lower one shows a British trench with a wooden walkway above it. Signs at the trench level say "Julius Point", and "Walking wounded". Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.