Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Date: 1941-1945

By: Pickrang, Francis John, 1915-1998; Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: PA1-q-1180

Description: Comprises photograph album belonging to Sapper Francis Pickrang (service no. 32297) relating to his service with the New Zealand Engineers, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy during World War Two. Taken between circa 1941 and 1945 by unidentified photographer(s) and K G Killoh. -Studio portraits of Pickrang and other unidentified servicemen include a sailor in naval uniform and a woman. Also includes a studio portrait of Pickrang at a desk writing letters home. He appears to be looking towards an inset image of a woman and child. -Scenes taken in Western Desert locations include informal snaps of Francis Pickrang, an unidentified sailor in naval uniform, and other army soldiers in camp life, sight-seeing at local landmarks, working at military construction projects and on the coast. Images of interest include: troops at the 'El Djem' theatre, Maadi Camp, Egypt, an army jeep with a silver fern logo and a picture of a Maori man with moko on the bumper, men washing clothes and drinking beer, men posing beside 'Monteith's Beer' graffiti, various bulldozers, tanks, army trucks and Caterpillar diesel vehicles at work, possibly a dredge offshore, the 'Auckland-Greymouth Clipper' army truck, a soldier posing beside a camp sign '10 Downing Street', soldiers posing with Egyptian locals and Sikh men, and soliders on motorcycles. -Scenes possibly taken in Libya include: bombed out buildings, Christian churches and Arabic style grand buildings, the 'Atlantic Hotel', a pyramid, soldiers swimming (sometimes nude) and beside trucks at a coastal location, earthworking machinery (road building?), RAF Hawker Hurricane and Bristol Beaufighter aeroplanes and a German Fieseler Fi 56 aeroplane on the ground, an aeroplane wreck, city streets with business signs in European languages, a coach, war graves, and signs for 'Nufilia' (Nofilia) and 'Feldlazarett' (German field hospital). -Scenes of interest taken in Egypt include an aeroplane named 'Asproliner', soldiers socialising, ambulances, a YMCA sign on a grand building, the YMCA Lowry Hut building at Maadi Camp, mosques, Qaitbay Citadel and the harbour of Alexandria, unidentified city streets, and cave homes. -Scenes relating to military medical services include: interior of a hospital in a grand house, doctors performing an operation in a tent, New Zealand and Red Cross flags, various New Zealand ambulances, a stretcher being loaded on an aeroplane, and an American Field Service ambulance. Includes duplicate image from the Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch collection of the 5th New Zealand Advanced Dressing Station ambulances at San Elia. -Scenes taken in Italy include images of the countryside and villages, bombed buildings, historic churches, fountains and buildings, city streets and piazzas, stone bridges, army trucks on the road, soldiers in camp, and piles of spent shells. Includes images of Italian peasants and children, haymaking and washing laundry. Also includes St Peter's Basilica and the Colosseum, Rome, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Roman archway in Alife, the fountain at the Royal Palace of Caserta, and Roman ruins. Also includes an Italian man with a chained bear. -Includes postcards showing Benito Mussolini at a rally and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Source of title - title supplied Library Inscriptions: Recto - centre - inside front cover inscribed '2 NZEF presented to 32297 Sapper F. Pickrang by the Government of New Zealand in recognition of his work with the New Zealand Engineers Middle East in the Second World War 1939-1945' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with silver decorative edging and silver lettering 'Photograph album' on cover, spiral bound, 33.5 x 29 cm Provenance: Purchase, March, 2014

Date: [1939-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11795

Description: Mignano, Italy, showing the camp of the 5th New Zealand Main Dressing Station during World War II. Photograph taken by K G Killoh. Note on back of file print reads: "5 NZ MDS at Mignano (near Cassino) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2 Aug 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11807

Description: World War 2 New Zealand Engineers digging graves a a casualty clearing station near Greve, south of Florence, Italy, 2 August, 1944. Corporal Alfred James (Jim) Gower drills in the foreground. Photograph taken by K G Killoh. Source of descriptive information - Jim Gower identified himself and the occasion, Nov 2006 The men were burying 12 soldiers killed in La Romola on the 1st of August. (Information provided by Jim Gower from Walter Edward Murphy, 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery. Part of the Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45. (Wellington, N.Z. : Historical Publications Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1966) p 626)

Date: [ca May 1943]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11774

Description: Looking from Takrouna, Tunisia, during World War II, showing the 21 NZ Battalion start line. Photograph taken circa May 1943 by K G Killoh. Source of descriptive information - Notes on DA file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print Processing information: No neg available. Item described is DA file print.

Date: [ca 5 Mar 1943]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-02911-F

Description: Rows of wounded New Zealand soldiers, on stretchers outside 5 New Zealand Field Ambulance tents, waiting to be evacuated, Western Desert, during World War 2. Photograph taken by K G Killoh, circa 5 March 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 7 Aug 1944]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11809

Description: Medical staff at at 5 New Zealand Medical Dressing Station, Castel Fiorentina, south of Florence, Italy, treating an Indian soldier. From left: J Thompson, T McGregor, F Roper. Photograph taken circa 7 August 1944, by K G Killoh. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 7.9 x 8.8 cm

Date: 2 Aug 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11808

Description: World War 2 New Zealand Engineers digging graves a a casualty clearing station near Greve, south of Florence, Italy, 2 August, 1944. Corporal Alfred James (Jim) Gower drills in the foreground. In the background (2nd grave from left) is the grave of Mr Gower's friend William (Bill) James Foley. Photograph taken by K G Killoh. The men were burying 12 soldiers killed in La Romola on the 1st of August. (Information provided by Jim Gower from Walter Edward Murphy, 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery. Part of the Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-45. (Wellington, N.Z. : Historical Publications Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1966) p 626) Source of descriptive information - Jim Gower identified himself and the occasion, Nov 2006 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8 x 8.8 cm, on file print card

Date: Nov 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11796

Description: 5th New Zealand Field Ambulance advanced dressing station by a railway line, near Atessa, Italy, during World War 2. Photograph taken by K G Killoh. No negative Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.3 x 8.6 cm

Date: ca 3 Jun 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11805

Description: Amputation operation at the 5th New Zealand Field Ambulance main dressing station in Sora, Italy, circa 3 June 1944. Patient and medical personnel unidentified. Photograph taken by K G Killoh. Notes on back of file print read: Killoh, K G - Photos; 5 NZ Fd Amb - Italy; Sora; Italian Campaign - [Terrelle to Anezano ?] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.4 x 8.4 cm, mounted on card 12.7 x 20 cm Processing information: No negative. This record describes the print on the Defence Archive file card.

Date: Dec 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11785-F

Description: New Zealand stretcher jeep ambulance near Sangro River, Italy, during World War 2. Photograph taken by K G Killoh, December 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.4 x 8.4 cm, mounted on card 12.7 x 20 cm Processing information: No negative. This record describes the print on the Defence Archive file card.

Date: March 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11778-F

Description: Army tank transporter used to roll landing strip for the air evacuation of wounded from desert to 3 G H. Taken in Tunisia in March 1943 by K G Killoh. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top centre - A tank transporter used to roll landing strip for air evacuation of wounded from desert to 3 G.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1944

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11792

Description: Ambulances of 5th New Zealand Advanced Dressing Station, 5th New Zealand Field Ambulance, parked in the shelter of buildings at San Elia, near Cassino, Italy, during World War 2. Photograph taken by K G Killoh in 1944. Defence Archive print caption reads: "San Elia near Cassino; ambulances of 5 NZ ADS parked in shelter of buildings." Further notes on print read: Killoh K G - Photos; 5 NZ Fd Amb - Italy; Cassino; Ambulances - Italy; Italian campaign - 5 NZ Fd Amb No negative for DA-11792 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.3 x 8.6 cm

Date: 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11758-F

Description: Unidentified World War 2 soldier with one leg blown off by a bomb, El Alamein, Egypt. Shows the lower half of the man lying on his stomach in his bloodied uniform. Photograph taken in 1942 by K G Killoh. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 24 October 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: DA-11753-F

Description: A burial service at El Alamein, Egypt, taken by Roman Catholic padre Forsman. Shows graves and soldiers (probably from the 5th Field Ambulance) standing by. Photograph taken by K G Killoh on 24 October 1942. Notes on the back of the file print include:`Egyptian Campaign - 5NZ Fd Amb' Padre Forsman was attached to 5 NZ Main Dressing Station (Information from back of file print) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).