World War, 1914-1918 - Transportation

Date: 1914

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-914

Description: Opens with a group of men on a tramp into the valley of the Orongorongo River in the southern Rimutaka Ranges. Included are views of the river and surrounding mountains, in particular Mount Matthews which they climbed posing for a photograph at the Mt Matthews trig station. There are views in the native forest and one looking over the Wainuiomata Valley. One image shows a group of men standing on the Fernside Railway Station labled as the "Mt Hector Party". This probably relates to a group of photographs later in the album recording a tramp in the Taraua Ranges. A group of five photographs records a trip to the Dawson Falls on Mount Egmont. There are views of the road leading to the falls through native forest, the group sitting on a huge rock below the falls, and the falls themselves. The other images in this group show the party on the Mountain, and loaded onto a cart at Eltham. Two pages of views of Days Bay, Lower Hutt, showing individual houses, Croyden School, and coastal scenes. A surveying trip to Kapiti Island. Views of the western cliff face of the island, the caretaker's house and surroundings, a tame deer, nautilus shells, and H E Girdlestone standing beside an 8 inch micrometer on a tripod. Views of the Volcanic Plateau showing Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro and the surrounding plains. The departure of the Main Expeditionary Force from Wellington during the First World War. The focus of these images is on the transports moored at the wharves, and the two escorting warships, the Japanese "Ibuki" and the British H M S "Minotaur", in the harbour. A group of women playing golf on the Waiwhetu golf links Family and friends at Eastbourne. Trip to the West Coast and the glaciers. Views of the main road south of Ross passing through heavy native forest, the Franz Josef Glacier and people climbing its ice fields, Mount Tasman, the Toaroha Rapids, and the Fox Glacier. There are also views of the Pelorus River and Bridge, the Buller Gorge, the Buller River, and the bridge on the road between Lyell and Inangahua. A general view of Greymouth where the party stayed with friends whoes two children were photographed driving peddle cars. A southern crossing of the Tararua Ranges. The route was by way of Mount Reeves, then down into the Tauherenikau River valley, along the river, then up to Mount Alpha and along the ridges to Hector and out again along the Waiotauru River to Otaki Forks. There are two photographs of members of the tramping party, as well as general views of the ranges, the rivers, a mountain tarn, and the Waihoanga Bridge. A visit to the Army training camp at Trentham. Photographs of individual soldiers and groups of soldiers and visitors. Three views of a man on horseback and a dog in the Manganuiateo River. Three images of surveyors making observations at a trig station using an 8 inch micrometer. Views of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1914 - 1918

By: Hilliker, Ivan, active 1992

Reference: PA1-o-601

Description: Photographs of New Zealand troops, Royal Flying Corps aircraft, shipping, indigenous peoples and scenery in World War I Middle East Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: Oct 1914

From: Photographs of the Great War

Reference: PAColl-D-0468

Description: National Library photograph exhibition on New Zealanders and the Great War. Two photographs forming a panorama of the crowd on the wharf farewelling the Wellington Battalion, Oct 1914 Quantity: 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 2 prints, 150 x 200 mm, mounted for display in exhibition

Date: 1915-1917

By: Marwick, James Harold, -1951

Reference: qMS-1345

Description: Marwick describes training at Trentham Camp, his voyage to Egypt and France, his wounding in France and of being sent back to England to recuperate after amputation of arm Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (36 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm, blue buckram)

Date: 1917-1918

By: Gilkison, Robert, 1862-1942

Reference: MS-Papers-10282

Description: Letters written to his daughter Norah (Eleanora) whilst a soldier in WWI; accompanied by typed transcript and letter from Mrs Parr re the Gilkison family Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: 1914

By: Sands, A G, active 1914-1920

Reference: PA9-054

Description: Panoramic photograph of Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary forces leaving Albany, Australia, taken 1914 by A G Sands Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Australian & N.Z. Expeditionary Forces Leaving Albany, W.A. 38 Transports escorted by H.I.M.S. Ibuki, H.M.A.S. Sydney & H.M.A.S. Melbourne.; Mount recto - beneath image - Tahiti - Maunganui - Star of India Hawkes Bay - Limerick - Port Division. Arawa - Athenic - Oran - Ruapehu - Waimana - Starbd. Division.; beneath image - [On frame] Presented by W.P. McIntyre. Nov 15th 1914; Recto - bottom right - A.G. Sands Photo Albany WA Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 18.4 x 116 cm, mounted, in wooden frame 49.3 x 152 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: ca 1900 - 1920

From: Commons, Jeremy Paul Axford, 1933- :Postcards of the ANZACS during World War I ; photographs of New Zealand, and of the Suez Canal

Reference: PAColl-2297-1

Description: Set of eight postcards from the Daily Mail series on the ANZACS in France, including ones of troops cheering the king, the arrival of the New Zealand Prime Minister by air, and a Maori butcher chopping up meat; other postcards of the Tauranga area particularly of houses damaged on the beach; and three prints of shipping on the Suez Canal including one of a dredge (photographer possibly named Langahi). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-075321, 075324 to 075333 and 075335 to 075343 Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: 1917-1919

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1060

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of 33rd Reinforcements training in Wairarapa, 1917 and at sea troopship life 1918 (Jan-Feb) on 'S.S. Athenic' via the Panama Canal. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 275 x 230 mm

Date: 1914-1919, 1921, 1926 (ca 1976)

By: Rogers, Stanley Dick, 1886-1975

Reference: MS-Papers-5553

Description: The letters were edited by the author to delete references to family matters. What remains is a detailed description of the conduct of the War as seen from Rogers' perspective. His duties involved managing traffic to and from the front and collecting intelligence. This kept him in close contact with the New Zealand Army during the various campaigns it was involved in in France. Rogers pays particular attention to his dealings with both Corps and regimental officers and men. Relationship complexity - Further photographs by Stanley are in the photographic collection of James Henderson, Photographs, chiefly relating to Stanley Dick Rogers, a Captain in New Zealand Mounted Rifles during World I, PACOLL-8637 Rogers worked at the Railway Workshops in Petone. He joined the Volunteers in 1902 and was frequently seconded to the Defence Department. In Aug 1914 he was appointed Assistant Commandant on Somes Island. In February 1916 he left New Zealand aboard the `Rangiotu' with the 3rd Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade for Egypt and subsequently landed in France in May 1916. In August 1916 he was seconded as a field officer, II ANZAC Army Corp (later Headquarters XXII Corps) and appointed Road and Traffic supervisor. He served in this capacity until the end of hostilities. Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Provenance: The typescripts were given to the donor's father, a friend of the author Contains numerous photographs interspersed throughout the typescript

Date: 1914 - 1915

From: Hutchison, James Douglas (Sir), 1894-1981:NZEF at Auckland, en route to Middle East, and at Gallipoli

By: Hutchison, James Douglas (Sir), 1894-1981

Reference: PAColl-1658-1

Description: Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1918-1935

From: Joplin, Elizabeth :Two photograph albums: World War One, Egypt and Gallipoli: Return from World War One, farming and family 1930s

By: Halse, George Clinton, 1895-1955

Reference: PA1-o-682

Description: The Album contains photographs of NZ troops returning from WWI (including life on board a troopship, crossing the Equator, views of Panama Canal); opening up farmland in the vicinity of Mt Ruapehu; new farm houses; various harbour scenes; sports teams; two photographs of a plane "crashed" at New Plymouth; a 1920ish motor car - later burnt out; one view of an iceberg "taken on the way to Archangel" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album approx. 207 x 252mm Transfers: Three loose photographs found in this album are at PAColl-3392-1.

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: October 1914, February 1919

By: Fitchett, W B, active 1935-1960; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Tibbutt, Walter Francis, 1872-1929

Reference: PA1-f-022

Description: Album mainly of photographs of the assembly and departure of the Main Body, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, from Wellington in October 1914. It includes photographs of the troopships, Japanese and British naval escort, temporary camps, exercising of horses, embarkation of soldiers and loading of supplies. One photo showing the Verdala (As HMNZT No 13) with a pencil annotation reading 'Verdala with reinforcements' from December 1914. Most photographs were taken by S C Smith, with others taken by H R Maybury, Leslie Hinge and W F Tibbutt. It also includes a photograph of Queens Wharf, Wellington, taken February 1919 by H R Maybury. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth bound album 27.4 x 39 cm Provenance: Album formerly in the possession of W B Fitchett, Lowry Bay.

Date: 1914-1940

By: Cameron, John James, active 1914-1940

Reference: qMS-0364-0365

Description: The first volume contains personal logs kept by Cameron while master of the `Hororata' on several convoys between England and Australia via Suez 1914-16, and of RMS `Remuera' running between England and New Zealand via Panama 1919. Also includes a London journal 17 June-30 September 1940 recording the bombing of Britain and Europe and living conditions during the London blitz. The second volume is a holiday diary describing travels between England and Scotland, 1929-1930. Source of title - Supplied Cameron was master of the `Hororata' and RMS `Remuera'. He was in London during the 1940 London blitz. Quantity: 2 volumes. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (20-33 cm, ¼ red roan, marbled boards)

Date: ca1915

By: Duncanson, Keith Gillanders, 1920-2007

Reference: PAColl-1342

Description: Arrangement: 1/4-61714-G to 1/4-61768-G Quantity: 54 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Found in house at 55 Ellice Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-6602

Description: Copy negatives of images in other colletions and images used in newsapers. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-016347 to 016368 and 018066 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1914

From: Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951 :Photographs of Samoa

Reference: PAColl-7229

Description: Colonel Logan and Colonel Paterson sitting on the verandah of a house in Samoa and New Zealand troops landing in Samoa 1914. Photographs taken by Tattersall. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002482 to 002483 Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1919-1920

By: Kingsford, Frederic, 1890-1965; Cameron, Kate, active 1999

Reference: PA1-o-934

Description: Album compiled by Frederic Kingsford of 23rd Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company, ca 1919. It is a pictorial record of his tours around Britain and Ireland before embarking on the 'Tainui' for his return journey to New Zealand. The return journey by way of Panama, included a stop over at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, and another at Colon, Panama, before passing through the canal. The British section of the album includes shots of a regatta held on the river at Walton on Thames where the New Zealand Hospital and depot was located. There are photographs of the clergy and the Royal family leaving Westminster Abbey after the Memorial service for overseas fallen, 14 May 1919. Others show the Australian and New Zealand stands at the Henley Regatta where the Australians won the Kings Cup from Oxford. Finally about four days before leaving for New Zealand he attended the Peace Procession at Glasgow (4 August 1919) in which colonial troops took part. The Tainui cleared Plymouth Sound bound for North America on the 8 August 1919. Source of title - Title supplied by Library The album was compiled by Frederic Kingsford, A Company, 23 Reinforcements, NZEF. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).