IMAGE
McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :Scene on P5 and barges, River Tigris, May /16 [1916]
- Date
- 1916
- Reference
- E-288-q-007
- Description
Ink sketch shows a paddle steamer at the left, drawn up beside a lower barge at the right on which three New Zealanders and their horses are waiting. The text reads:
NZer (on barge): "Any room up there, old boy?"
The "Old Boy" (six months' service): "Do you know whom your [sic] addressing?"
N.Z.: "No"
The "Old Boy": Well! I'm an officah, and a regulah, and we regulahs don't like "Old Boy""
(N.Z. subsides)
The paddle steamer could be a P50 rather than a P5. See "A naval history of World War I", by Paul G. Halpern (1995), page 131.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink drawing on page, 140 x 230 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane / McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :Some Mesopotamian and other memories, New Zealand Wireless Troop, No. 1 pack / F.L. McF. [1916-1918]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Sketches, Humorous pictures, Ink drawing on page, 140 x 230 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
See original record
Click to request to view this item, access digital version (if available), and see more information.