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New Zealand soldiers with the 'Cannibals Paradise' sign in World War I, France

New Zealand soldiers with the 'Cannibals Paradise' sign in World War I, France
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New Zealand soldiers with the 'Cannibals Paradise' sign in World War I, France
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TAPUHI
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Four World War I New Zealand soldiers in a front line trench pose beneath the sign 'The Cannibals Paradise Supply Den Beware' painted on corrugated iron in response to German propaganda that New Zealanders ate their captured prisoners. (Soldier 2nd from left may be Ted Brosnahan) Also on the trench wall is an official wooden sign 'Keep to the Trench'. Beneath this has been added another wooden sign with the message painted in capital letters 'And youl [sic] get to NZ'. Photograph taken Gommec...

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Date created
10 Aug 1918
URL
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22756079
Locations
Gommecourt
Related subjects
World War, 1914-1918 / Battlefields / France / Trench warfare / Campaigns / Wit and humour / Military personnel, New Zealand / Propaganda / Gommecourt

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