World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Units. NZ Dental Corps

Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: RNZAF Station, Taeiri; Ardmore; Nelson; Harewood; Hamilton; Wigram; Rutland Street, Ohakea; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Wellington; Waipapakauri; RNZAF Station Delta; New Plymouth; RNZAF Accommodation Camp, Anderson Park; HMS Tamaki; HMNZS Cook (Shelly Bay).

Photographs of Dental Section at Los Negros (Manus Island); Lauthala Bay, Fiji; Egypt (1941).

Caravan trailer, 1946 (taken by A G Sparrow); Mobile Dental Unit on manoeuvres in NZ, 1942; 4 NZ Field Ambulance (Dental Section) at Castelfrentano, Italy; Dental store at Wellington, 1945.

Series of captioned photographs of NZ Adv Base Hygiene Section. Includes methods of food storage, pest control, refuse disposal, portable latrine; Camp Maadi; personnel of 6 NZ Div Hyg Section prior to forming of NZ Adv. Base Hyg. & Maadi Camp Hyg Section, Dec 1943; photo of Major Knights (OC 4 Field Hygiene Coy) & Major Kay (OC NZ Adv Base Hyg. Section), 1944

Collection of photographs separated out for use in the publication `The New Zealand Dental Services' compiled by T V Anson (Official history of NZ in the Second World War), 1960. Includes: Mobile Dental Section in the field at Whangarei (photo by B Snowden); drawing of camp site and plan No 10 Mobile Dental Section, Solomon Islands (key to aerial photo); contents of prosthetic pannier; contents of surgical pannier; mobile prosthetic laboratory being loaded on board a transport ship bound for Egypt, 1941; No 2 Dental Section, Bougainville, 1945; Dental Headquarters, Guadalcanal; No 2 Maxillo-facial Injury Section with CCS in Guadalcanal; No 10 Mobile Dental Section in Guadalcanal; Dental Section in native bure, Fiji; 4 Field Ambulance Dental Section, Alamein; mobile unit on way to Syria; Lieut Col O E L Rout; several photos of dental sections in NZ as listed above.

Quantity: 293 b&w original photographic print(s).