The following photogaph is part of the “Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Collection, which is located at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
The photograph is believed to have been taken possibly at Pont-a-Pierre in France, sometime in late 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.
Zooming in a bit, we can see a New Zealand field kitchen postioned behind a destroyed British tank, two soldiers are cutting food on a table while others wearing 1st Canterbury Regiment collar badges are waiting patiently.
(The chap wearing the Service Dress cap at the back seems to be wearing an artillery badge)
Zooming in on another area we can see a sergeant wearing a 2nd South Canterbury Regiment collar badge, and below his sergeant stripes he is wearing 4 service chevrons indicating 4 years service.
(Service chevrons were approved September 1918, General Order No. 430)
Zooming in on another area we can see two men wearing the crossed flags signallers qualification badges, the one on the left being a cloth version and the one on the right is brass. The chap on the right is wearing a 12th Nelson Regiment collar badge, and interestingly, he is also wearing a 12th Nelson Regiment cap badge on his tunic pocket.
The last but most important section to zoom in on, shows the cook (the one wearing the lemonsqueezer) wearng a souvineer badge belt.
