All Souls Day memorial funeral burial service, in the churchyard of St Martin's, Selles, Pas de Calais, France

All Souls Day memorial funeral burial service, in the churchyard of St Martin's, Selles, Pas de Calais, France
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Date
2 Nov 1917
Reference
1/2-013007-G
Description

All Souls Day memorial funeral burial service to commemorate the New Zealand fallen, in the churchyard of St Martin's, Selles, Pas de Calais, France. Shows priests officiating and soldiers looking on. Photograph taken 5 November 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders.

Caption - "Despite bad weather many New Zealanders attended Requiem Mass held in village church in honour of Algium, their fallen comrades 4th Brigade [sic]." (Album)

The burial service followed a requiem mass inside the church.

Source of descriptive information - Library client and information at PA1-f-091.

Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H373

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Additional description

Alternative form available: An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091

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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 4.75 x 6.5 inches, Orientation: Horizontal image
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All Souls Day memorial funeral burial service, in the churchyard of St Martin's, Selles, Pas de Calais, France. Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918. Ref: 1/2-013007-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22855602

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