![]() This picture from c.1918 is captioned "Men gathered around to witness a battalion flogging of Dunsterforce irregulars for an assault on an NCO". A Dunsterforce company irregular being held over four boxes by his arms and legs in readiness for a flogging for stealing forage." He is stripped to the waist, presumably to be whipped on the bare back. Here is a flogging triangle from Old Sydney Town, Somersby, on display at Gosford, New South Wales. My informant writes: "The wood is old but not the ropes, which might not be authentic in their arrangement. ![]() The top rope appears to be handcuff-like, with slip knots, with the middle hooked over the third leg of the tripod. ![]() This arrangement does not provide well for prisoners of differing heights."Īctor Anthony George plays convict Wilbur Ramsay in this modern re-enactment (April 2010) of a flogging using the equipment at Gosford illustrated above. The military in the former Austria-Hungary empire used a flat bench for flogging. This example is at Liptovsky Mikulas in present-day Slovakia.
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