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Hill 60 - Zillebeke - British war trenches 1914-1918.

Description: Postcard produced during the First World War. Recto: Sepia toned photograph shot at a high angle looking down into the British trenches on the front line in Zillebeke, Belgium, during the First World War. Ghyselinck, A., photographer

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Postcard produced during the First World War. Recto: Sepia toned photograph shot at a high angle looking down into the British trenches on the front line in Zillebeke,…
Emprunt de la Defense Nationale

Description: French poster produced during the First World War. Image of a soldier walking with his unit, looking back and waving to his wife and three children. Text above "Emprunt de la Defense Nationale" [National Defence Loan].

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: French poster produced during the First World War. Image of a soldier walking with his unit, looking back and waving to his wife and three children. Text above "Emprunt de la…
Pour la France [For France]

Description: Poster produced during the First World War. Image of a German soldier down on one knee, a rifle held in both hands. A large gold coin, featuring a Gallic cock, is bearing down on him. Words on coin read "Liberte [Liberty], Egalite [Equality], and Fraternite [Fraternity], 1915. Text in French "Deposit your gold for France. Gold fights for victory.".

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Poster produced during the First World War. Image of a German soldier down on one knee, a rifle held in both hands. A large gold coin, featuring a Gallic cock, is bearing down…
Frontpost Beilage

Description: Propaganda flyer, produced by the Allied Forces in Europe, and distributed to the German soldiers and civilians in Germany.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Propaganda flyer, produced by the Allied Forces in Europe, and distributed to the German soldiers and civilians in Germany.
Palais du Trocadero

Description: Poster produced during the First World War. Image of a group of people mourning in a cemetery - a women, children, and a soldier wearing glasses while saluting. Tributes and messages adorn the grave. Text in French, for a charity matinee gymnastics performance to benefit widows and orphans.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Poster produced during the First World War. Image of a group of people mourning in a cemetery - a women, children, and a soldier wearing glasses while saluting. Tributes and…
Before endeavours fade : a guide to the battlefields of the First World War

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Der Adler

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Medical tents

Description: Black and white photograph of a nurse, standing near medical tents at New Zealand General Hospital, Pont de Koubbeh.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white photograph of a nurse, standing near medical tents at New Zealand General Hospital, Pont de Koubbeh.
Staff No.1. N.Z.G.H, Cairo

Description: Group portrait of staff at New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Group portrait of staff at New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo.
[Officers, New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo, Egypt]

Description: Group portrait of 17 officers taken at New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo. Major MacKenzie Gibson (front row, second from left) and Lieut.-Col. William Henry Parkes (front row, 3rd from left)

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Group portrait of 17 officers taken at New Zealand General Hospital, Cairo. Major MacKenzie Gibson (front row, second from left) and Lieut.-Col. William Henry Parkes (front…
210. Blindfolding a Turk before he is taken through our trenches on the Jebel Hamarin. "Johnnie Turk" is always well guarded bu the Tommy.

Description: Two soldiers have placed a white blind fold over the eyes of a young Turkish/Iraqi soldier. Three more soldiers are standing in a trench in the mid-ground.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Two soldiers have placed a white blind fold over the eyes of a young Turkish/Iraqi soldier. Three more soldiers are standing in a trench in the mid-ground.
badge, identity

Description: Circular metal identity disc collected at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany in 1945 by 35702525 Sgt. Lawrence Clifford Timberlake, 69th Infantry Division, United States Army. Together with a punched oblong hole at the top of the badge for attachment, the obverse features a raised rim, and is inscribed 'K-L. Bu. 8456,' all impressed from the reverse.'K-L. Bu.' stands for 'Konzentrations-Lager Buchenwald' (Concentration Camp Buchenwald).

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2018.54.1Accession Date: 24 Sep 2018Description: Circular metal identity disc collected at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany in 1945 by 35702525 Sgt. Lawrence Clifford Timberlake, 69th Infantry Division, United…
363. Scenes on the Sakartutan Baghaz Road over the Jibel Hamarin. [sic]

Description: Soldiers on foot and some riding carts pulled by donkeys. They are walking through the Hamrin Mountains of Northern Iraq.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Soldiers on foot and some riding carts pulled by donkeys. They are walking through the Hamrin Mountains of Northern Iraq.
Steve

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Ted. Steve. Munro

Description: Black and white snapshot of James Edward Walter Beckingham, Steve and Peter Munro on board boat.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Black and white snapshot of James Edward Walter Beckingham, Steve and Peter Munro on board boat.
Bonnie and Ethel

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Tom and Steve

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Officers, NZSH, Moascar

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Maj. Bowerbank, Col Parkes, Departure of Reinfts. To Salonica, 15/11/1915

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
[Steamship on river] Staff Picnic to Barrage

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
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