World War, 1914-1918 - Hospitals

Date: 1914-1918

By: Levick, Edith Audrey Mayson, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-5609

Description: A personal record of family, friends, holidays, nurses, hospitals and soldiers. The New Zealand content is just part of the record of Audrey Beeton's life between 1914 and 1924. Overall the albums give a view of the well off middle class life of a woman whose father was a knight and whose husband was a Royal Navy surgeon and an antarctic explorer. If Audrey Beeton was a nurse at the St George's Hill auxiliary hospital, it is likely that she volunteered as part of the war effort. There are no photos of her in nurses uniform. The impression is much more that of a daughter of the local gentry taking a patriotic and practical interest in the health, welfare and comfort of the troops, but with plenty of time to take part in week end house parties and lawn tennis. Arrangement: Albums at PA1-o-853 to PA1-o-856 Audrey Beeton, creator of the collection, was in some way associated with the brick house through family or friends. Her home was probably 'Duneevan', the other house that features throughout the albums. Quantity: 4 album(s). Provenance: Albums compiled by Audrey Beeton, who appears to have been one of the nurses. Audrey Beeton was a daughter of Sir Mayson Beeton and married the naval surgeon and antarctic explorer, Murray Levick. Processing information: St George's Hill Hospital previously described as being located in Weymouth (Dorset), corrected to Weybridge (Surrey) on advice of researcher. 10 January 2017

Date: 1914 - 1918

By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979

Reference: PAColl-0251

Description: 1/2-077376 to 1/2-077383 Quantity: 2 loose pages from album; total of 13 images. 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914-1919 [197-?]

By: Russell, John Macbeth, 1891-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1696

Description: Russell describes his service at Gallipoli, hospitalization on Lemnos, service in France, officer training in England and return to NZ; includes photographs, plans and newspaper cuttings Quantity: 1 folder(s) (95 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed and photographs (photocopy)

Date: 1914-1925

From: Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7080-5

Description: Nurses and soldiers in military hospitals in Britain during the First World War. A house and family in New Zealand in about 1920. People on board ship en route for Britain in 1925. These include Silston and Jean Cory-Wright. Also included are some photographs taken during a visit to the war zone in Belgium. Silston Cory-Wright and Jean Isobel MacLennon married in 1924. In 1925 they went to Britain on a honeymoon trip. Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1916-1919

By: Beattie, Gerald Craig, 1892-1994

Reference: MS-Papers-3908

Description: Beattie covers the period 16 October 1916 to 12 January 1919 with a day by day description of his activities Accompanying material - Accompanied by letter from donor providing biographical details; and obituary Other - Transcribed in 1986? Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Oral history interview in Oral History Collection Beattie, a school teacher, left New Zealand in Oct 1916 and served as a corporal (No 22206) with 4 Company, 1st Otago Battalion in France. He was wounded during the 2nd Battle of the Somme in Mar 1918 and hospitalised in England. He visited various parts of Britain while convalescing and returned to New Zealand in Dec 1918. Beattie married in 1920. A long-standing Rangiora resident, Beattie taught at Rangiora High School from 1919 to 1956 when he retired. Quantity: 3 folder(s) (215 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy)

Date: ca 1914-1918

Reference: PA5-0266

Description: First dressing station amongst the Gullies, ANZAC, 1915 showing the Red Cross flag. Verso contains message `this is the Field Hospital where G... Barnett was after the August advance' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph 87 x 135 mm

Date: 1918 - 1925

By: Gregory, Frederick William, 1884-

Reference: E-499-q

Description: Ink sketches and cuttings stuck into album. Contains 44 cartoon sketches from army life and travels in Britain and France during World War 1, 4 pages of photographs of family members or friends(?) and of samples of signwriting, 18 leaves of cuttings of advertisements from overseas(?) magazines, 3 loose watercolours, and loose newspaper photograph cuttings (the last dated 1957). Newsletter of the Liberal Catholic Church, 1957, is one of loose items. Includes one sketch of head of wife Florence May Gregory on pedestal, and at least one caricature of her. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (Inside front cover): Calling card :Mrs F W Gregory Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, 31 leaves, 303 x 245 mm, green buckram, ¼ bound in dark green morocco, spine cover missing. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 1995.

Date: [ca 1880s-1920]

By: Edwin family; Gorton, Millicent, 1877-1966

Reference: PA-Group-00056

Description: Photographs relating to the career of Captain Alexander Mitford Edwin in the Mediterranean and East Africa during World War I and as a shipmaster for the Union Steam Ship Co. During the war Captain Edwin commanded the Wahine, the hospital ship Marama, and the Willochra. He brought the reconditioned Wahine back from England in 1919, and for 13 months before he retired in March 1922 he commanded the Tahiti in the San Fransisco service Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Prints at PAColl-6231; Negatives at 1/4-090477 to 090482 Quantity: 3 album(s). 116 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w original negative(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) postcards. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) ambrotype. Physical Description: Albums, photographic prints, negatives, postcards Provenance: Millicent (Lilly) Gorton was the daughter of Captain Robert Atherton Edwin, and sister of Captain Alec Mitford Edwin. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0267 : Edwin family : Papers (except 2 albums which appear to have been given directly to Photographic Archive when the collection was originally received by the Library in 1966).

Date: 1914-1918

By: Thompson, B, active 1993

Reference: PAColl-3365

Description: Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-019633 Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Crawford, John Alexander Brodie, active 1990-2017: Collection

By: Qualis Photo Company

Reference: PAColl-1494

Description: Copies of photographs of New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, England, showing men in traction in the wards, men in their beds outside with parasols against the sunshine, a group of nurses, a large group of soldiers and nurses and the "tents picnic", and three men in wheeled wicker beds outside. Quantity: 6 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1916-1917

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6972-15

Description: Most of the images in this collection record the military and the sites of frontline action. There are fewer images of the ambulance units, dressing stations and field hospitals. In 1916 Agnes Bennett was appointed commanding officer of the 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service. From August 1916 her field hospital was attached to the Serbian army. An attack of Malaria led to her resignation in October 1917.(info from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol three, 1901-1920. The 7th Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service was called the American Unit because funds for its equipment and operation were raised in America. (Info from \"No Easy Path: The life and times of Lilian Violet Cooper,\" Lesley M Williams, Amphion Press, Brisbane, Australia, 1991.\") Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914-1918

By: Tronson, Aubrey de Coudray, 1892-1957

Reference: MS-Papers-2393

Description: Notes based on Tronson's diaries and articles he wrote for the Wanganui chronicle relating his experiences during 1914-1915 and on voyage back to NZ in 1918. Also describes work of Base Records Office, London Tronson served with the Wellington Infantry Battalion. He was wounded at Gallipoli in Apr 1915, hospitalised in England and returned to active service in France in 1916 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (62 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: July 1917

By: Scammell, Bruce, active 1971-1993; Panora Ltd

Reference: PA6-521

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Photograph originally owned by J J J Sandbrook, who appears in the photograph

Date: 1915 - 1917

By: Willis, Lizzie Ida Grace, 1881-1968

Reference: PAColl-1683

Description: Quantity: 25 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1915-1919

By: Gordon, Colin MacFarlane, 1895-1991

Reference: MS-0853-0854

Description: Reflect war-time experiences in Egypt, England and France. Gordon sailed from Wellington in the `Maunganui' in 1915 and performed medical duties, doing general ward work, and working in Field Ambulance and as sick-berth steward Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts (27 cm; blue boards)

Date: 1893-1940

By: Commons family

Reference: MS-Papers-1582

Description: Correspondence and diaries kept by family and especially Daphne Rowena Commons, recording experience as nurse in Europe and Egypt during World War I. She left New Zealand on the SS `Rotorua' in Apr 1915 and arrived in Cairo in Jun 1915. In Jun 1916 she returned to Brockenhurst Hospital, England by `Marama' and then went to Essex in Mar 1918. She returned to New Zealand on the SS `Corinthic' in Aug 1919 to Trentham and finally to Rotorua in 1921. Also some financial records, lecture and nursing notes. The Commons family lived in Tauranga and Auckland. The family consisted of Mr William McKenzie Commons and his wife Kate, and their children: Daphne Rowena (Rona), Sgt Kenneth Wrigley, Aitken, Elsie J, Winifred, Katie, and Donald. Quantity: 36 folder(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory previously available in the reading room was removed on 1 December 2014, as it contained no further information. A copy is available in the staff backfile.. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs and postcards.

Date: 1915-1918

Reference: fMS-211

Description: Book contains names and addresses of visitors on opening day, 31 Jul 1915. Also includes signatures of George V, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales, 13 Aug 1915, together with those of other important visitors, 1915-1918 Hospital at Mt Felix, Walton on Thames was the first New Zealand War Contingent hospital set up in England Quantity: 1 volume(s) (17 pages). Physical Description: Ms (40 cm; green leather) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs H Dalston, England, 1983 (84-134)

Date: [1914-1918]

From: Duckett, Graeme :World War I scrapbook

By: Pepperell, Leslie Robert (Corporal), 1883-1963

Reference: PA1-o-414

Description: Photographs relating to World War I, chiefly taken by L R Pepperell. The album also contains additional material relating to the war, including postcards; a New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Certificate of Discharge in Corporal Pepperell's name; a New Zealand Railways Returned Soldiers' 2nd-class railway ticket; a Certificate of Leave in Lieu of Discharge in the name of Private Herbert Longstaff (of 'D' Company, 38th Reinforcement NZEF, in Feb. 1918 when he was aged 29); postcards taken from German prisoners; three satirical postcards; newspaper cuttings; and seven French postcards embroidered in silk. Photographs include scenes at camp including a haircut, which may be Pepperell having his haircut. Also included in the album is a photocopy of Pepperell's Demobilization Certificate, the original item now being kept in Ephemera (at Ephemera B. World W. I : Demob). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 111 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Scrapbook, in and Olympic blank-paged school excercise book. Cover decorated with grey, black and red vertical stripes. Entitled "1st World War, 1914-18" written in blue ball-point pen in top right-hand corner; 25 x 20 cm

Date: 19 Dec 1916

By: Callaway, Archie, active 1916

Reference: MS-Papers-4392

Description: Comprises a letter from Otway to Archie Callaway of Timaru with personal advice and a description of life at Brockenhurst Hospital (19 Dec 1916) Arthur Otway left New Zealand in 1914 with the NZ Medical Corps. After a period in Egypt he served as a medical orderly at No 1 NZ General Hospital at Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 21 Sept 1988 - 21 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Gordon, Colin MacFarlane, 1895-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/31

Description: Describes family background (child of second marriage), education, study for law degree, School Cadets, enlistment, territorials, interest in medical career, casualty lists. Joined the New Zealand Medical Corps No. 2 Stationary Hospital and sailed in 1915 with 5th Reinforcement. The hospital unit took over the Egyptian Army's Pont de Koubbeh Hospital in Cairo's Abbassia district, treating sick and wounded from Gallipoli. Worked as an orderly. The unit moved to United Kingdom in 1916 and took over the hospital Lady Hardinge had built for Indian troops as well as two hotels. This operation was the No. 1 General Hospital at Brockenhurst. Was sent to France as a stretcher bearer and was wounded on his second day in the (1916) Battle of the Somme, arm saved by the Oakins Solution. Also worked in the Quartermaster's store issuing uniforms to men leaving hospital. He arrived home in 1919 determined to put whole experience behind him. Comments on muddle of army life. Gives very full accounts of the actions and work in which he was involved. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Gordon's home at 23 Combes Road, Remuera, Auckland Accompanying material - Copy of 'Life of a hospital orderly in Cairo and England - 1915 - 1916', by Colin Gordon, 13 August, 1984 (OHA-0473/3), 31 p. Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 473/1-2 (transcript in two parts). Black and white photograph of Colin Gordon, 1988