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Unidentified WWI soldier with a prosthetic right hand learning to write with his left hand at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England
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- Title
- Unidentified WWI soldier with a prosthetic right hand learning to write with his left hand at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England
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- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
The details of the limbless serviceman featured in this photograph are unknown; so are the circumstances behind its production. However, we can assume that it was taken at Oatlands Park in Surrey, England, during the latter part of World War I. Oatlands Park At this time, Oatlands Park, a hotel, was being used as a hospital by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force for medical and tuberculosis cases and limbless men (informally known as 'limbies'). Oatlands Park was a few miles south-west of No...
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- Date created
- 1918
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- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/900374
- Related subjects
- Amputees / Artificial limbs / soldiers / Military uniforms / People with disabilities / Weybridge (United Kingdom) / First New Zealand Expeditionary Force / World War, 1914-1918 / silver / photographic gelatin / photographic paper / mounting board / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / documentary photographs / photography / black-and-white photography / world wars / War / rehabilitation / England
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