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In the trenches on the Western Front

Image

New Zealand soldiers in a front-line trench on the Somme, La Signy Farm, France, 6 April 1918. Sergeant Ormond Burton (Auckland Regiment's official historian who became a prominent Second World War conscientious objector) stands on a firing step in the trench wall.

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference no: 1/2-013092-G
Photographer: Henry Armytage Sanders
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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In the trenches on the Western Front, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/trenches-western-front, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated