IMAGE
Threshing on the Heathfield farm near Torquay, World War I
- Date
- [ca 1918]
- Reference
- 1/2-013900-G
- Description
Threshing underway at the Heathfield farm worked by New Zealand soldiers classified as unfit for military service in World War I. Shows a steam powered threshing machine operated by a civilian. Soldiers are standing on a nearby haystack forking hay. Bags of chaff or grain are on the ground or on a cart in the foreground. Photograph taken circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - UK106
Heathfield was one of the farms of the New Zealand Discharge Depot at Torquay, Devonshire that operated in World War I. New Zealanders unfit for military service worked on eighty acres of the estate owned by Lord Clifford. (H T B Drew, NZ Army at Home)
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918 / Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918: UK Series negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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