World War 2 New Zealand signaller repairing a communication line, Tripoli, Libya - Photograph taken by H Paton

World War 2 New Zealand signaller repairing a communication line, Tripoli, Libya - Photograph taken by H Paton
Date
ca 22 Jan 1943
Reference
DA-02835-F
Description

Unidentified World War 2 New Zealand sergeant from 2nd Divisonal Signals repairing a communication line in the cover of a desert shell hole in Tripoli, Libya. Photograph taken by H Paton.

Other - Note on back of file print reads: "The keeping of communications open in a battle area does not often allow a linesman to find as much cover as this sergeant has found in a shell hole in the desert during the NZ Division advance, Tripolitania."

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

Physical Description: Film negative

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Square image
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