Title page of ‘Some Mesopotamian and other memories, New Zealand Wireless Troop, No. 1 Pack’, a sketchbook by Sapper Francis Ledingham McFarlane. The badge of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps appears at the top of the page, between a typical local scene and a typical local. Below the title a troop member is depicted at work and play. The cumbersome radio equipment had to be split up into several loads (‘packs’) for carriage by horse or mule.
The 62-man New Zealand Pack Wireless Troop arrived in Basra in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in April 1916 and served in this area for the next two years.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: E-288-q-002
Artist: Francis Ledingham McFarlane
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