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Kōrero: Crafts and applied arts

Soldiers embroidering, 1918

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Soldiers embroidering, 1918

These injured and disabled soldiers are embroidering as they recover from war wounds in Christchurch Public Hospital in 1918. An officer is visiting the men and admiring their work.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-5932-27

by Leslie Hinge

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins rāua ko Lucy Hammonds, Crafts and applied arts – Craft from the 1900s to 1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/45275/soldiers-embroidering-1918 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Douglas Lloyd Jenkins rāua ko Lucy Hammonds, i tāngia i te 16 May 2014.