Soldiers of the Otago Battalion being instructed in navigating barbed wire at their camp at Sling
in England, during World War I. They appear to be using wooden batons with metal tips to depress the wire.
Photograph probably taken in 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales.
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References:
- Reference number: 1/2-014042-G. Part of Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association: New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918 (PA-Group-00051). Alexander Turnbull Library