IMAGE
New Zealand soldiers with the 'Cannibals Paradise' sign in World War I, France
- Date
- 10 Aug 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
- Additional description
Alternative form available: An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094
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- 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 / H 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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