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Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
- Date
- 1915-1919, 1939-1964
- By
- Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969
- Reference
- MS-Group-1680
- Description
Collection comprises World War One diaries (1915-1919). Also later work diaries kept by Munro. These recount his daily activities, some financial records and his attendances at Sunday Mass (1939-1964).
Source of title - Supplied by Library
Munro served as a trooper with the 4th Squad Wellington Mounted Rifles, 7th Reinforcements, NZEF during World War One. Later worked as a road construction worker in the Taranaki region.
Quantity: 10 volume(s). 0.10 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holographs
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 10 volume(s), 0.10 Linear Metres, Diaries, Manuscripts, Holographs
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Work diary
Date: 1954
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8155
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling and clearing drains. Some entries for Sundays include Mass and communions attended. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Work diary
Date: 1949-1953
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8154
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling and clearing drains. Some entries for Sundays which include mass and communion. The diary also includes some financial records. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
World War One diary
Date: 1917
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8148
Description: Diary depicts the routine nature of military life. Comments on weather patterns, church parades and looking after the horses. On leave to Boulogne (France) in May. Involved in Passchendale campaign. Enclosures - Includes newspaper cutting with scribbled notes. Probably from a later period by a different author. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Diary
Date: 1951-1964
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8156
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling and clearing drains. Also includes personal diary entries for trips around New Zealand with family. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Work diary
Date: 1944-1945
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8152
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling, clearing over-growth, inspecting roads and clearing drains. The diary includes some financial records. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Work diary
Date: 1939-1941
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8151
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling and clearing drains. The end of the diary includes some financial records. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
World War One diary
Date: 1919
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8150
Description: Diary begins with a trip away to Ireland and Scotland in early January. Continues with routine military life in England. Leaves for New Zealand at the end of March. Details shipboard life on the journey home, disembarkation in the second week of May. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
World War One diary
Date: 1915-1916, 1954
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8147
Description: Diary begins with embarkation on 9 Oct 1915 from Wellington. Details shipboard life aboard the `Navua' including sporting activities, weather conditions and other passing vessels. Arrived in Albany, Western Australia on 21 Oct 1915 to link up with the Australian contingent. Arrived in Colombo on 4 November 1915 and Munro relates adventures ashore. Departs 6 Nov 1915 across the Indian Ocean, arrives in Suez, Egypt for disemarkation on 21 November 1915. Diary continues with life inside the camp at Zeitoun, Cairo which includes mounted drills, regular church services and care for the horses. Comment is made on field trips to the Nile River and the Pyramids. Diary also includes addresses and enlistment details for Hector George Munro from Te Kiri, Taranaki. Enclosures - The front flap of the diary has enclosed a lock of hair wrapped in brown paper and a newspaper article from a Honolulu newspaper detailing the retirement of Hector G Munro from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (1 Oct 1954). Quantity: 1 volume(s). Front page includes a photographic illustration of Mount Taranaki with an ink stamp from Te Kiri (30 Sep 1915).
Work diary
Date: 1946
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8153
Description: Diary entries comment on Munro's work as a roadworker in the Taranaki region. Details include metalling bitumen, fencing, water-tabling and clearing drains. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
World War One diary
Date: 1917-1918
From: Munro, James Ferguson, 1894-1969 : Diaries
Reference: MSX-8149
Description: Includes period in France. Comments on daily life including going to the picture theatres, dentist and playing cricket. At the end of the diary is a list of family birthdays. Quantity: 1 volume(s).