Bunge Family Album , photographer Reinhold Hofmann ( composite T . Brunt 2014 )
A kind guard gave internee Gustav Kronfeld a piggy-back to a waiting dinghy so that he didn ’ t get his shoes wet .
Reinhold Hofmann Biography – 2
After the New Zealand occupation of Samoa at the end of August 1914 , Mr Hofmann was taken into custody and sent to Somes Island Camp , in Wellington , arriving there in October . He was an early detainee , being classified as ‘ Prisoner of War No . 10 .” Mr Hofmann ’ s early departure for internment seems to have been provoked by his ill-advised rowboat visit to German warships moored briefly at Mulifanua on 15 September 1914 ( see page 221 ).
Reinhold arrived at Somes Island with no money , and clothes valued at 25 Pounds . There is no mention of any cameras being in his possession . After some time he was transferred to Motuihe Island camp , in Auckland .
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