"Come on. I'm taking a photograph." "While we're all still in one piece." "You don't want me in - I'm already wounded, see!" "Me too!" "Leg wound!" Reinforcements training at Trentham taken in 1917 were aware of lengthening casualty lists from campaigns in Gallipoli, Sinai, and France. 10 April, 1999.

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"Come on. I'm taking a photograph." "While we're all still in one piece." "You don't want me in - I'm already wounded, see!" "Me too!" "Leg wound!" Reinforcements training at Trentham taken in 1917 were aware of lengthening casualty lists from campaigns in Gallipoli, Sinai, and France. 10 April, 1999.

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The cartoon is in five frames, the fifth being an actual photograph of soldiers at Trentham in 1917. In the photograph the soldiers are jokingly pretending that they are wounded. The four preceding frames as cartoons show them preparing for the photograph and joking about which parts of their anatomy are wounded. They agree to be photographed while they are still in one piece. A comment on the good humour of the soldiers before they go off to the trenches in the First World War and a kind of ...

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Date created

2003

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23231584

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Trentham Military Camp (N.Z.) / World War, 1914-1918 / Casualties / Photographs / Soldiers

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