Henry Armytage Sanders

A long line of New Zealand troops digging 

trenches near Couin, France, 6 April 1918

 

A priest speaking to soldiers, who are sitting on the ground, at a New Zealand 

Brigade church service in Sapignies, France, 8 September 1918

 

New Zealand regimental aid post in a captured trench at Puisieux, France

 

New Zealand soldiers preparing a 6 inch trench mortar 

near Le Quesnoy, France, 29 October 1918

 

Soldiers eating sausage rolls, Selle, France, 1917

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 A New Zealand soldier reading from a 

German magazine, Grevillers, 20 August 1918

  

 New Zealand and French soldiers 

at Louvencourt, France, 2 June 1918

  

 New Zealand Engineers take a break, 

Spree Farm, Ypres Salient, Belgium 1917

  

 Soldiers having their hair cut at an open air barber-shop 

in the transport lines near Louvencourt, 21 April 1918

  

Tug of war with horses, New Zealand Artillery 

sports, Louvencourt, 22 June 1918

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 New Zealanders in France at Pont-a-Pierre moving wounded German soldiers onto stretchers. The Germans had been brought down on a farm cart from the front line, 1 November 1917

 

 Playing the winners of an event at the New Zealand 

Infantry Brigade horse show, France, 20 May 1918

  

 Preparing a meal in the trenches near Gommecourt, 25 July 1918

  

 The winning Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps tug-o-war at the 

NZ Infantry and General Base Depot, Etaples, France, 3 August 1918

  

Soldiers watching for Germans at a New Zealand signalling 

post on the Somme, near Colincamps, France, 21 April 1918

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 A group portrait of the women volunteers who staff the YMCA Lowry Hut canteen at the New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot in Etaples, France, 3 August 1918

  

 New Zealand 4.5 howitzers and soldiers, at an 

orchard in Le Quesnoy, France, 29 October 1918

  

 New Zealand nurses and medical officers of the New Zealand Stationary 

Hospital gathered beneath an archway carved by a Maori patient. 

Through the archway rows of huts are visible. 16 August 1918

  

 New Zealand soldiers in the front line on the Somme, 

La Synge Farm, France, 6 April 1918

  

New Zealand soldier using a machine gun at the 

front line at La Synge Farm, France, 6 August 1918

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 A New Zealand 18 pound gun in action at Beaussart, France, 23 May 1918

  

 A New Zealand battery advances into the captured 

village of Achiet Le Petit, 24 August 1918

  

 A section of New Zealand Riflemen in 

newly captured Bapaume, 29 August 1918

  

 Members of the Queen Mary's Auxilary Army Corp present at the sporting events 

held at the New Zealand General Base Depot at Etaples, France, 3 August 1918

  

Moses, the donkey mascot of the New Zealand Army 

Service Company, in a playful mood, 20 April 1918

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A New Zealand nurse and orderly outside the diphtheria ward, 

New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Wisques, France, 16 August 1918

  

German bicycle with tyres made of springs due to the rubber 

shortage, near Metz, France, 14 September 1918

  

German prisoners captured by New Zealand soldiers at Messines, 1917

  

 Inspection of the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion 

by William Massey and Joseph Ward, 3 July 1918

  

Members of the World War I Maori Pioneer Battalion taking a break 

from trench improvement work, near Gommecourt, France, 25 July 1918

Henry Armytage Sanders

Henry Armytage Sanders was a New Zealander who photographed his country's troops in action in France during World War I. The photos are from Flickr.

A convoy leaving the New Zealand Stationary Hospital 

for the ambulance train, France, 16 August 1918

   

A French woman sits next to a New Zealand soldier on a horse-drawn wagon packed with household furniture and belongings. They are shown outside a house (hers?) in a street in Bus-les-Artois near the front lines, 15 April 1918

   

A howitzer supporting New Zealanders at the front, 

France, Bus-les-Artois on the Somme, 16 April 1918

  

A New Zealand Field Ambulance corps established in a wood near 

Bus-les-Artois, France. Shows camouflaged tents under the trees, 11 May 1918

  

Horses killed in a German bombing raid, 1917-18