Illumination & Commemoration

Illumination & Commemoration is a digital repository for the lantern slides of New Zealand’s First World War battlefield memorials held by the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Canterbury, designed by architect Samuel Hurst Seager. Search or browse the slides individually, by location, or by sub-collection:

Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli

Uniformed men beside Shrapnel Valley Cemetery with temporary grave markers

Longueval – Monument Stones, Scaffolding

Shaped stones and scaffolding at the site of the New Zealand memorial at Longueval

Le Quesnoy – Sculpture in Studio

Relief sculpture for the Le Quesnoy memorial in the artist's studio in Paris

Messines

After the Allies’ mines were detonated, the New Zealand Division won the town of Messines during an early phase of the drive on Passchendaele.

Snapshots

An exhibition of images demonstrating the interactions Samuel Hurst Seager had with a range of people and organisations involved in...