IMAGE
No 1 Company billeted at Hampton House, Torquay, World War I
- Date
- [ca 1918]
- Reference
- 1/2-013899-G
- Description
Group portrait of the No 1 Company outside the Hampton House mansion that served as a billet for the New Zealand Discharge Depot during World War I. The group is positioned in front of an ivy-clad house with a castellated entrance. Photograph taken at Torquay, England, circa 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - UK105
Hampton House quartered New Zealand soldiers classified as permanently unfit and awaiting discharge. No 1 Company comprised soldiers who were to disembark at Auckland. Torquay was the New Zealand Discharge Depot.
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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