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Snapshots in camp and around London album
- Date
- 1914-1918
- Reference
- PA1-o-471
- Description
Album compiled by a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918. It contains views of New Zealand Expeditionary Force camps in England, the Grey Towers Hospital, Te Whare Puni club for New Zealand soldiers, Royal Bath Hospital (at Harrogate), Oatlands Park Hotel (in use as a convalescent hospital), Malta, Gallipoli (including the landing party, in the bivvies, Anzac Cove and Walker's Ridge) and Capetown.
Activities at the various camps and convalescent hospitals included mending gear, playing two-up, skinning hares for dinner, playing bowls, snow-fights.
Painted title page, on back of front cover had the following signature: "Harry Thos Peat". Album belonged to Mr Peat?, photographs taken by Mr Peat?
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering under a small stylised picture of landscape with windmill; 14.5 x 18.5 cm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copy negatives available at 1/2-C-004401 to 1/2-C-004428
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with green cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering under a small stylised picture of landscape with windmill; 14.5 x 18.5 cm
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UnknownA landing party approaching the shore at Gallipoli during World War I
Date: 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-20-2
Description: A landing party of troops approaching the shore at Gallipoli during World War I. There is a line of five boats that stretch back to the troopship. All of the boats are nearly filled to overflowing capacity. Photograph taken in 1915 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Landing party Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 6.2 x 4 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
New Zealand Soldier brick layer, England
Date: 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-20-3
Description: New Zealand soldier bricklayer, England. Photographed by an unknown photographer in about 1915-1916. This photograph may have been taken at the site of the New Zealand military hospital at Walton on Thames, London. The associated photographs include views of Weybridge, a nearby village, and the Oatlands Park Hotel which from 1916 to 1918 was used as a hospital for New Zealand soldiers. The brickie may be working in trenches (shown in an associated photograph) dug to lay sewerage pipes. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The Brickey Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 6.2 x 4 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
Capetown
Date: lBetween 1914 and 1918
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-22-4
Description: View of Capetown harbour, taken between 1914 and 1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
HMS Bacchante
Date: 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-21-4
Description: HMS Bacchante at Gallipoli, photographed in 1915 by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - H.M.S. Bacchante Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
Destroyers, probably in the Mediterranean
Date: Ca 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-22-2
Description: Two warships, photographed ca 1915 by an unknown photographer. Original caption reads "Two escorts; T B Destroyers". "T.B. Destroyers" probably refers to torpedo boat destroyers, the original name for this class of vessel. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
World War 1 soldiers at the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex
Date: during World War 1
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-19
Description: World War 1 soldiers at the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Hornchurch, Essex. Photographer unidentified (possibly Harry Thos Peat? - see other notes for PA1-o-471). Note on back of file print reads "All NZ Convalescents from the 3 New Zealand General hospitals in England (Brockenhurst, Walton on Thames and Codford) were sent to the NZ Convalescent Hospital at Hornchurch, Essex. From there they returned to NZ or passed to Codford Command Depot before returning to Sling Camp (Infantry Base Training Depot), finally rejoining their units." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 61 x 40 mm
Scene in England
Date: Between 1914 and 1918
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-23-4
Description: Scene in England, probably in the vicinity of the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex, photographed ca 1914-1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
Soldiers resting in bivouacs at Gallipoli
Date: 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-20-4
Description: Soldiers resting in bivouacs at Gallipoli, photographed in 1915 by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - In the bivvies Gallipoli Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 6.2 x 4 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
Small craft at Malta
Date: Ca 1915
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-22-3
Description: View of the harbour, Malta taken ca 1915 by an unknown photographer, showing a small oared vessel, described as a gondola in the original caption. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page
New Zealand soldiers with dog
Date: Between 1914 and 1918
From: Snapshots in camp and around London album
Reference: PA1-o-471-23-3
Description: New Zealand soldiers with a dog photographed at the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex, ca 1914-1918 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 4 x 6.2 cm (visible image) mounted on album page