IMAGE
New Zealand soldier with an Italian thermos bomb, Egypt, during World War 2
- Date
- [between 1939-1945]
- Reference
- DA-00634-F
- Description
Unidentified New Zealand soldier with an Italian 'thermos bomb' boobytrap, in Egypt, during World War 2. Photographer unidentified.
The 'thermos bombs' were dropped in the Western Desert. They looked like a khaki-coloured thermos flask and were designed to explode when moved. Dvr G. R. Osborn was killed by one in the Western Desert on the 13th of September 1940. His was the first death from enemy action in 2 NZEF. (Information from CHAPTER 1, The Beginning, 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies, The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War)
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: Vertical image
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New Zealand soldier with an Italian thermos bomb, Egypt, during World War 2. 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. Ref: DA-00634-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23250840More information can be found in our terms of use.