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Date: 1938-2008

By: Hayward, Vivienne, 1940-

Reference: MS-Papers-9485

Description: Letters and papers relating to Sergeant Gordon Christie Dunn (1912-1942), together with a copy of his daughter Vivienne Hayward's memoir `Finding Gordon - A love story' (published by the author in 2008). It is based on the edited correspondence between her mother and father during the early years of World War II. These private letters provide an insight into her mother Joan's life at home in Invercargill and her father's war experience in Egypt and as a prisoner-of-war in Crete and Germany up until his accidental death in Stalag VIII-B in Feb 1942. The correspondence provides details of Burnham Camp; voyage to Egypt with 2NZEF; Maadi Camp and leave in Alexandria; letters from captivity in Crete. Also official correspondence re his accidental death after transfer to Stalag VIII-B, Germany in Feb 1942. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 0.18 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Book Collections - Copy of `Finding Gordon - A love story' / Vivienne Hayward (2008).

Date: 1883-1960

By: Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960

Reference: MS-Papers-1483

Description: Primarily records of World War One service, comprising scrapbooks of correspondence, reports, documents, etc. Served as Captain with British army in France until captured at Vimy Ridge, May 1916; later served with Inter-allied Commission and British Red Cross Society, dealing with Russian prisoners in Germany. Unpublished autobiography, business correspondence, photographs, clippings, Juriss family records. There are many souvenirs of his war service - a collection of medal ribbons, German and Russian prisoner of war currency, tickets, flashes, armbands, labels, a homemade compass and handmade programmes for entertainment etc Other - Remininscenes and annotated scrapbook of letters etc (Folders 1 & 2) were filmed and returned to Mr Juriss in Sep 1988 Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Orders and decorations. Collection of medal riboons and World War One relics.

Date: 1941-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 9 Oct 1989 - 09 Oct 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Lawrence, Charles George, 1897-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/47

Description: Family background, death of father in 1901, life with grandmother on West Coast, how he became shellshocked, work on West Coast, attitude on West Coast to territorials, military. Enlistment, training at Trentham and Featherston, left with 17th Reinforcements in 1916, Sling Camp, attitude to British instructors, impression of United Kingdom, food at Sling Camp and training, Etaples, One Blanket Hill, Messines, Ploegsteert Wood, Passchendaele, experience as a sniper, refusal to kill German, infantry hit by own artillery shelling at Passchendaele, sniping incidents, Nimot, General Godley, Braithwaite, fighting during Second Battle of the Somme, German pill boxes and wounded by shell in 1918. Recalls American hospital at Le Havre, pleurisy, trench feet, Brockenhurst Hospital, convalescent home at Torquay, food in France, views on French, prostitutes, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, entertainment companies, two-up, YMCA, relationship with officers, lice, self inflicted wounds, executions, suicides, conscription, gas attacks, return to New Zealand, war brides, career since war, health, rehabilitation, opinion of RSA, drunkeness, job as a frameworker, territorials, bringing German rifles back to New Zealand, home guard (Fort Dorset during World War II). Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Lawrence's home at 45 Britannia street, Petone Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper article 'No regrets - 65 years together', Evening Post, 21/4/1988 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002684 - OHC-002686 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 489, OHDL-000334. Black and white photograph of Charlie Lawrence, 1989

Date: 4 Oct 1988 - 04 Oct 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Elder, Arthur William Frederick, 1893-1988

Reference: OHInt-0006/25

Description: Describes family background, a full account of his education and of his first jobs, including his apprenticeship, territorials No. 1 Garrison Artillery (Auckland), his fiancee, influence of religion on his life, 16th Waikato (Territorials), enlistment in artillery, Featherston, sailed on 'Ulimaroa', final leave, ports of call, Capetown, Sling Camp, leave in London and in Scotland, training, gas training, and New Zealand and British instructors. Recalls Etaples, Divisional Ammunition Column (DAC), use of horses and mules, horse training, Messines, mobile canteens, various incidents with DAC, appendicitis, Brockenhurst and Hornchurch Hospitals, Eweshot, 4th Battery, mass graves, Amiens, the Big Push, Bapaume, armistice, influenza, with Army of Occupation in Cologne, conscientious objectors, attitude of civilians, prostitution in London and Germany, dangle parade, Massey and Ward, voyage home, career since 1919, and views on RSA. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Elder's home at 237A Shirley Rd, Papatoetoe, Auckland Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 467. Black and white photographs:-. Two of Bill Elder, 1988. Bill Elder at gun on deck of "Ulimaroa", undated