Ripa Island : a lesson for conscriptionists

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  • Title Ripa Island : a lesson for conscriptionists
  • Creator Samuel Veale Bracher
  • Date 1914
  • Image 6 of 11
  • Physical Description 28 x 21 cm
  • Collection Description This booklet, by Samuel Veale Bracher, documents the experiences of 13 young men who refused service in the National Service League, were imprisoned on Ripapa Island, and their eventual hunger strike. "To this fortress thirteen youths from the city of Christchurch and the West Coast were committed during the month of June, 1913, to undergo military detention. Their names were: Reginald Williams, J. E. Nuttall, . Robert McTaggart, Walter J. Hooper, H. Guthardt, James K. Worrall, H. W. Thackwell, Edward Hannam, William George Robson, John McTaggart, J. Coppersmith, Thomas Nuttall and Edward Edwards."
  • Collection Location ANZC Research Collection
  • File Reference CCL-73787-006

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This material has been digitised by Christchurch City Libraries.