My informant says the design (technically "sgraffito" or etching) represents an Austrian officer caning a young Czech soldier, who is lying flat on a bench with his wrists tied, receiving punishment across the seat of his pants. This is part of a frieze on the front of a building of c.1900 in Prague depicting scenes of the period (up to 1918) when the Austro-Hungarian Empire included what is now the Czech Republic. Note iron bands for waist, ankles and wrists.Ī similar piece of equipment at this tourist site in Hungary. This example is at Liptovsky Mikulas in present-day Slovakia. The military in the former Austria-Hungary empire used a flat bench for flogging. 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 top rope appears to be handcuff-like, with slip knots, with the middle hooked over the third leg of the tripod. My informant writes: "The wood is old but not the ropes, which might not be authentic in their arrangement. Here is a flogging triangle from Old Sydney Town, Somersby, on display at Gosford, New South Wales.
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. This picture from c.1918 is captioned "Men gathered around to witness a battalion flogging of Dunsterforce irregulars for an assault on an NCO". Re-enactment of a whipping with the "cat" at the Australiana Pioneer Village in Wilberforce, just outside Sydney.ĭunsterforce was a company of Australian and other Allied irregulars in 1917-1919 deployed across Greater Persia (now Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus), named after its commander, Gen. Just type "New!" into your web browser search box.ĪUSTRALIA Most of the pictures that were previously here have now been incorporated into the Country Files page for judicial CP in Australia. Note: you can search within certain pages of this website, including this one, for items that are new at the latest update. If you have reliable information please let me know.Ĭlick on the thumbnail image to see the full picture in each case. These pictures mostly either didn't come with an article or news item or caption attached, or the details are only sketchy in one or two cases, there is room for doubt as to whether they are what they seem or claim to be. JCP PICTURES Judicial, prison and military punishment pictures from various countries Commentary by C. Have a look at the site's front page or go to the explanatory page, About this website. This page is just one of this website's 5,000 pages of factual documentation and resources on corporal punishment around the world. JUDICIAL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Pictures of punishments
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