The flogging of a German by orders of Colonel William Holmes, as a reprisal for the flogging of a ...

Accession Number A02630A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Date made November 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

The flogging of a German by orders of Colonel William Holmes, as a reprisal for the flogging of a British missionary, the Reverend W A Cox, by masked Germans. The floggers were captured and flogged in the presence of German residents and Australian soldiers of the Australian Navy and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) only.