Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome black and white New Zealand soldiers gather around the grave at the funeral of Sergeant Henry James Nicholas, VC, MM, who was killed towards the end of World War I. Other soldiers watch from the wall of a French churchyard. Photograph taken probably in Vertigneul churchyard near Romeries, France 9 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Inscriptions: Inscribed - Photographer's title on negative -bottom left: H1109. Sergeant Nicholas was killed on 23 October 1918 near Beaudignies, France. His body was exhumed on 29 October and reinterred with military honours in Vertigneul churchyard. (History of the NZ Division, p. 551) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches The funeral of Sergeant Henry Nicholas, VC, in World War I, France. Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918. Ref: 1/2-013667-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/23124751 New Zealand soldiers gather around the grave at the funeral of Sergeant Henry James Nicholas, VC, MM, who was killed towards the end of World War I. Other soldiers watch from the wall of a French churchyard. Photograph taken probably in Vertigneul churchyard near Romeries, France 9 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Inscriptions: Inscribed - Photographer's title on negative -bottom left: H1109. Sergeant Nicholas was killed on 23 October 1918 near Beaudignies, France. His body was exhumed on 29 October and reinterred with military honours in Vertigneul churchyard. (History of the NZ Division, p. 551) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches The funeral of Sergeant Henry Nicholas, VC, in World War I, France. Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918. Ref: 1/2-013667-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. natlib.govt.nz/records/23124751 |