A group of about fifteen soldiers holding picks and planks of wood are shown practising digging trenches. It was probably taken at the Awapuni Racecourse, which was home to one of New Zealand’s largest training camps in World War One, and was the sole location for training the New Zealand Medical Corps. staff.
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Trench Digging
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Identifier
- 2018-44
- Date
- 1914 to 1918
- Digitisation ID
- 2018P_2018-44_025446
- Held In
- IMCA Digital Archive
Creation
- Created By
- Unknown
- Place
- Awapuni
Object rights
- License
- No Known Restrictions
Taxonomy
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