IMAGE
Four World War I `Digger Pierrot' group photographs
- Date
- [between 1917 and 1918]
- Reference
- 1/1-002032-G
- Description
Copy negative of a set of four group portrait photographs (labelled 219 to 225) of the `Digger Pierrots', an entertainment group formed on the Western Front in 1917 to entertain New Zealand soldiers during World War I, and their orchestra. Photograph taken between 1917 and 1918, by Henry Armytage Sanders.
Other - Note on back of file print reads: `The Kiwis who for months entertained N Z soldiers fresh from the trenches in France. They were always close to the line. Their theatre was shelled many times'.
Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 222; Marginal notes on negative - top right - 219; Marginal notes on negative - bottom left - 221; Marginal notes on negative - bottom right - 220
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
- Use/Reproduction
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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, Group portraits, Glass negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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