Observed arrival · 2026-11-11
A Somme house with a New Zealand wartime chapter
A privately owned house in Mailly-Maillet is documented through its role as a New Zealand dressing station in April 1918, archival photographs, and a timeline spanning two wars.
- For
- Somme history readers and First World War researchers
- Worth noticing
- The site labels claims as archive-backed or owner research with sources still to follow.
Field notes
The homepage organizes the material into the 1918 dressing-station account, a two-war timeline, and a blog for later finds. Its evidence labels distinguish facts backed by archive sources from owner research whose sources are still to follow; the featured photograph is identified as Henry Armytage Sanders’s H492, dated 1 April 1918, with credit to the Leo Bestall diary and album at MTG Hawke’s Bay. The owner says additions will be made gradually.
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