Burnham Military Camp (N.Z.)

Date: 1938-1943

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: United States. Marine Corps. 2nd Division

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-057

Description: Aerial and other photographs of the following: Dunedin fortress area showing Wharf Street Hy.A.A., camp, Kensington Drill Hall, 1938, 1942 (Series 4/5); Blumine Island showing gun emplacements, Top Camp site and Lower Camp site (Series 2/5); Timaru showing general area, battery position, Drill Hall, Band Room (Timaru Municipal Band Inc), Patiti Point magazine (Series 20/4); Bluff coastal defence showing gun position disguised as cottage, Drill Hall (Series 2/4); Burnham Military Camp showing general area, magazines, school buildings, recreation field, NCO's quarters, etc, 1939-1942 (Series 2/7 & 8/9); Christchurch showing general view of battery position, District Headquarters in Malings Building, aerial view of 44 Riccartion Road (S.D.Constr. Sqr), 1946 (Series 3/4); Coromandel Council Chambers/Coromandel Orderly Room, 1938 (Series 3/5); Dannevirke Drill Hall, 1938, and general view of C.D.S.I Camp, 1943 (Series 4/1); Delta Military Camp showing power house and engine room under construction, 1943 (Series 4/2); Diamond Harbour, Lyttelton showing general area, 1942 (Series 4/3); Dunedin fortress area showing Taiaroa Heads, Harrington Point & Wharf Street A.A. site, 1942 (Series 4/4); Duntroon Drill Hall, 1938 (Series 4/6); Featherston Military Camp and Drill Hall (Series 6/1); Foxton showing general area including Manawatu River, township and racecourse (Series 6/2); Tomahawk, Dundein showing three houses taken by army for accommodation purposes (Healey's, Winefield's and Richard's), gun positions and B.O.P., 1943 (Series 20/7); Te Atatu showing Hy A.A. position, 1942 (Series 20/2); Pilots Beach, Dunedin fortress area showing general area and gun emplacement and camp, 1943 (Series 16/14); Plimmeron showing general views of camp (Series 16/15); Post Office Point, Sounds defence showing magazine construction, camp site, gun emplacement site, general views, etc, 1943 (Series 16/17) Some Dunedin and Bluff photographs taken by Captain A F Tylee. Quantity: 162 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

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: Elmar Studios; Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-222

Description: Miscellaneous uncaptioned photographs. Include: Panorama of Cassino (mounted); linesmen up a power pole; tukutuku panels and carved panels in a Maori meeting house (photographer J T Salmon); anti-tank practise; V8 engine; grave of regimental mascot No 1 dog Major Major (d 1944); WAACS on board transport ship; Maori soldier; NZer in Long Range Desert Group; Burnham Military Camp, 1939 (photographer Elmar Studios) Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938-2008

By: Hayward, Vivienne, 1940-

Reference: MS-Papers-9485

Description: Letters and papers relating to Sergeant Gordon Christie Dunn (1912-1942), together with a copy of his daughter Vivienne Hayward's memoir `Finding Gordon - A love story' (published by the author in 2008). It is based on the edited correspondence between her mother and father during the early years of World War II. These private letters provide an insight into her mother Joan's life at home in Invercargill and her father's war experience in Egypt and as a prisoner-of-war in Crete and Germany up until his accidental death in Stalag VIII-B in Feb 1942. The correspondence provides details of Burnham Camp; voyage to Egypt with 2NZEF; Maadi Camp and leave in Alexandria; letters from captivity in Crete. Also official correspondence re his accidental death after transfer to Stalag VIII-B, Germany in Feb 1942. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 3 Electronic document(s). 0.18 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Book Collections - Copy of `Finding Gordon - A love story' / Vivienne Hayward (2008).

Date: 15 Feb 2006

From: Second World War oral history project: Home Front

By: Rowe, Hazel May, 1923-2014

Reference: OHInt-0827-11

Description: Interview with Hazel Rowe (nee Davis), born Christchurch, 23 July 1923. Talks about her father Leonard William Davis, a station master with New Zealand Railways, and her mother Bertha Cecilia (Bessie, nee Bull). Refers to her father, a World War I veteran, being an Air Force reservist in World War II and spending time in the Solomon Islands. Talks about her brother being in the merchant navy during the War, and her future husband in the Air Force. Recalls attending WWSA (Women's War Service Auxiliary) meetings, learning drill and signalling. Discusses enlisting in the Army in 1942 and basic training at a camp at Addington racecourse where she was promoted to drill sergeant after three weeks. Talks about conditions in the camp, food, accommodation and discipline. Outlines beginning officer training at Trentham Army Camp but then being sent to the Melrose school of artillery for training as a range-finder for anti-aircraft gunnery. Refers to being posted to the Mt Pleasant anti-aircraft battery (port hills above Lyttelton) in February 1943. Mentions living conditions at Mt Pleasant, the behaviour of male sergeants towards the women, lectures from the Army Education Welfare Service, and a wooden fence between the men's and women's huts. Refers to the arrival of radar at the battery. Describes being transferred to Burnham Camp to work in WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) headquarters. Recalls officers including Mavis Davidson and Vida Jowett, the camp swimming pool, entertainment, and a snow storm in 1945. Discusses the uniform, inspections, mail censorship, and men with venereal disease having to wear yellow patches. Recalls the arrival in Burnham of British ex-prisoners of war who had been in Changi prison camp. Mentions being discharged from the Army in December 1945 and marrying Edward (Ted) Rowe in January 1946. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - printout from Women's Royal Army Corps website (4 p.) including two webpages about Sergeant Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015246, OHC-015247 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.07 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5528 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. photocopy of photograph of Sergeant Hazel Davis in uniform Search dates: 1923 - 1939 - 2006 - 1945

Date: 1 January 1945 - 26 October 1945

From: Deere, Margaret: Buist Family Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12688

Description: Comprises a 'Collin's "New Zealand" Pocket Diary for 1945' containing entries written by William Paul Buist while he was serving in the New Zealand Army during World War Two. The diary begins on 1 January 1945 and ends on 26 October 1945. The diary details Buist's time spent at Burnham Military Camp, and in the Middle East, which included time at Maadi Military Camp and trips to Palestine and Alamein. At the end of the diary are notes written by Buist which include: travel times, books read, finances, ideas for future employment, and things to make. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pocket-sized brown bound diary, 10 x 7 cm. Processing information: Diary was received by the Library in a plastic case which has not been retained for conservation purposes.

Date: 2012

From: Deere, Margaret: Buist Family Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12685

Description: Comprises a bound volume of transcripts of three war diaries, kept by William Paul Buist during World War Two, transcribed and compiled by his daughter Margaret Deere. The diaries detail Buist's time spent serving in the New Zealand Army in: Trentham (1942); New Caledonia (1942-1944); New Hebrides and Guadalcanal (1943); Treasury Islands (1943); Green Islands (1944); Burnham Camp (1944); and the Middle East (1945). The volume also includes supplementary material, including letters and photographs, sourced by Deere. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Bound printed volume, 29.7 x 21 cm.

Date: [1941?]

By: Gosney, Robert, active 2016; McNaughton, Julie, active 1940s

Reference: MS-Papers-12078

Description: Letter, written on "Tuesday night" but actual date unknown, by Roger Craig to his girlfriend, Julie McNaughton, who lived in Invercargill. Roger Craig was stationed as a gunner with A Troop, 1 Training Battery, at Burnham Military Camp. Describes activites, including "shooting off the 24 pounders" at Birdling's Flat, practising setting up field telephone systems and leisure activities, including playing cricket against other units at Burnham Camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 letter of 2 pages, 1 envelope. Physical Description: Manuscripts, holograph and typescript, and printed souvenir envelope. Provenance: Letter found by donor in a book purchased at a book fair in Palmerston North in 2016. The book was 'The will of the tribe' by Arthur Upfield. The presence of a Health Stamp Souvenir Cover suggests that the letter was written in 1941.

Date: [ca 1927-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-199

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1920s-1950s. New Zealand people in the news - Campbell Island meteorological station personnel; Watkins family of Hastings (champions in three sports), 1939; Hon W E Parry & Hon Walter Nash at celebrations to mark Lower Hutt becoming at city in 1941; Bishop Cherrington, Rev G H Scurr & Rev L K Collins, 1931; Captain S G Stringer, 1927; Colonel A W Orsborn & family; Mrs Ellingham of Dannevirke; Mrs Basilia Schulte-Baeuminghaus & daughter Ira (of Bavaria); Len Hodge (Canterbury junior diving champion) with John McCormack, USA; MPs J A McL Roy, T L MacDonald & A S Sutherland, 1949; John Smith (pilot instructor), 1937. Photographs relating to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Phillip, 1947 Photograph of Mr B Lusk (solicitor), Mrs Bayley, Mr R E Fawcett (solicitor) and Mrs Bayley's father, T Palmer arriving at the Supreme Court Auckland during the trial of William Alfred Bayley, who was charged with the murder of S P Lakey and his wife at Ruawao, May 1934. Jubilee Exhibition of Canterbury College of Art - Former directors examining a portrait by R Wallwork of Robert Herdman Smith (director of the Art School in 1905). Directors are Gordon H Elliott, Frederick Gurnsey, Archibald F Nicoll and R Wallwork. Archibald F Nicholl painting the portrait of George Harper, 1932; Frank Callaway (Director of King Edward Technical College); Colonel A W Orsborn, new Chief Secretary for Salvation Army in New Zealand, & family, 1933; Canterbury pioneers at Bridle Path Memorial Service - John Chapman, Rev F G Brittan, Richard Evans, 1939. Wynne Smith, song-writer; group photograph of Brigade Commander & Commanding Officers and staff of 6th Infantry Brigade NZEF, 1940 (named on verso); nurses at Waiouru Camp Hospital (named on verso), 1951; Officers and staff of Waiouru military camp, 1951 (named on verso); Senior officers of Dental Services at Burnham (Lt-Col W M Ford, Lt G W Stanley & Major E B Reilly), 1950; Grant-Dalton Trophy awarded to Wellington (No 2) Squadron in 1950 - Leading Aircraftman W M Whitehead with Squadron Leader Oldfield & Group Captain F R Dix; Miss Kane, Mrs Burrell, Mrs Ross & Mr Duckworth Barker UNESCO at Pan-Pacific Conference; group photograph of members of the council of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the annual conference held in Dunedin, 1948 (named on verso); family group photo taken at Hope Gibbons Golden Wedding, 1931. Group photo of Mr A G Harper, Mr & Mrs H B Burdekin, Sir Howard & Lady Kippenberger, General Young, Mr & Mrs W S Lett. Two photographs relating to lighthouse on Portland Island, off Mahia Peninsula (article in NZ Free Lance, 12 Apr 1950, p 17); eight photos and undated letter about life of a New Zealander who married the lighthouse keeper at Pine Islet, Queensland, Australia. Overseas people in the news - John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special representative & Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, 1951; Harold MacMillan, Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, General Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport etc; Anthony Eden and others, 1951; Price & Princess Paul of Serbia & baby son; General Eisenhower; Earl Haig; Gladys Cooper & Sir Neville Pearson; group at christening of Sally, daughter of Sir Neville & Lady Pearson (Gladys Cooper); Marshall Tito at Centotaph in Whitehall, 1953; Flight-Lieut George Stainforth; Auriol family; aerial view of Singapore showing Raffles Museum & Library, 1950; Dr Otto Schmidt, 1937; Ruling princes of India in London; Dutch swimmers G Galliard & Irma Schumacher, 1951; Major `Wid' Watson (famous jungle fighter), 1944; Korean internees return to Britain, 1953. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [Between 1935 and 1945]

By: Kent-Johnston, Charles Walter, 1918-1973; Kent-Johnston, Isabella Christie Loma, 1918-2003

Reference: PA1-q-134

Description: Photograph album relating to World War II, chiefly taken by Charles Walter Kent-Johnston, when in the 2NZEF in Egypt. The first part of the album shows family and friends, and various houses, none of which are identified. The war images include scenes of Burnham Military Camp, and then shipboard travel to the East, followed by scenes in Egypt. There are numbers of group scenes of the life of soldiers on leave, and some of the everyday life of Egyptians. The last group consists of postcards of Egyptian life. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with tooled leather cover, decorated with poker-work coloured illustration entitled `Maori Whare, N.Z.', and `Photographs'; 21 x 32 cm

Date: 1946-1947, 1967

By: Harper, Ian Murray Mackenzie, active 1945-1967

Reference: MS-Papers-7489

Description: Comprises letters written by Harper to Nan(cy) Braddick, his future wife, while he was serving with J Force, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan. During this time he was a driver in the Transport Section of Headquarters Company 27 Battalion based in Yamaguchi. He describes his duties as a driver and his recreational activities. Also includes four letters written by Nan to her husband while he was staying at the Leviathian Hotel Dunedin, Jan 1967. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss and typescripts Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photo album including loose photographs relating to J Force.

Date: 1967

From: Farrell, Terence John, fl 1967-2014: Transparencies relating to Farrell's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975

Reference: PA12-11047

Description: Transparencies relating to the service of gunner Terry Farrell during the Vietnam war of 1961-1975, taken during 1967 by Farrell. Shows soldiers at leisure around the barracks at Burnham, and on exercises at camp and in 'Little Malaya' near Oxford, Canterbury. No captions or dates with transparencies. Information provided in letter from Farrell. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1975-1981

From: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928- :Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-325

Description: A record of stained glass windows designed by Beverley Shore Bennett from 1975 to 1981. The record includes photographs of the graphic designs for the windows as well as the completed windows. Occasionally there is an entry relating to the craftsmen who made the windows. As well as the buildings in the name record field, windows were also designed over this period for Presbyterian churches in Invercargill, Balclutha and Taire Plain, a church at Scargill Canterbury, a church at Puketapu Hawke's Bay, and a church in Melbourne Australia. In 1969 Beverley Shore Bennett designed the font for St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. It was as a result of this that the Dean of the time, Walter Hurst, invited her to design the Holm Window for the Cathedral. This was the start of Beverley's career as a designer of ecclesiastical stained glass, a subject she had studied under Frederick Ellis at the Wellington Technical College Art Department in 1946-1947. The window was constructed in the studio of Roy Miller of Dunedin, and Beverley Shore Bennett produced designs for Miller Studios from 1969 until the studio closed in 1987. The craftsman at Miller Studios that made the greatest number of her windows up until its closure, was Paul Hutchins, a Welshman, who joined the firm in 1977. From about 1990 to the early 2000s the crafsman employed on making the windows was Stephen Belange-Taylor, a Royal College of Art London trained stained glass maker, who worked in Britain, France, Canada and the USA as well as New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1960-1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the New Zealand Army, volunteers, soldiers of regular forces]

Reference: Eph-A-ARMY-1960s

Description: Contents include: 1960: 27th (M.G.) Battalion Association (Palmerston North Branch). National reunion, Palmerston North, 4-6 June [1960]. Official programme 1961: New Zealand. Army. 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment :Presentation of colours to First Battalion the New Zealand Regiment, by His Excellency The Governor General on Burrows Field, Burnham Camp, Sunday 10th September 1961. Order of service 1962: New Zealand Regiment, Second Battalion. A souvenir programme of the presentation of colours by Major General The Right Honourable Sir Harold Barrowclough. Burrows Field Burnham Camp, 4 March 1962 1963: Dunedin Volunteer Artillery Company :Centennial celebrations 1863-1963, Re-union Tudor Lounge, 7th September 1963. Toast list 1965: New Zealand Army. Pricelist for medals, miniature medals, medal ribbons, as at 1 April 1965 1967: New Zealand Army. Pricelist for medals, miniature medals, medal ribbons, as at 30 September 1967 New Zealand Army. Directorate of Recruiting. Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps. Regular Force. 1967 [Information booklet] New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps. Vacancies, conditions of service [1967] 1968: New Zealand. Army. Aim high; join the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment [ca 1968] New Zealand. Army. Step up the ladder with the professional Army. Career prospects, job security, variety, outdoor life [ca 1968] New Zealand. Army. Waiouru Command :Householders guide and information sheet [1968?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, letterpress, on booklets, tickets and fliers, sizes varying

Date: 1940

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-203

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :[Cartoons from the Free Lance Collection 1954 to 1960]

Reference: C-076-212

Description: Four scenes depicting women in the army Publication - Published on 28 Sep 1960 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 184 x 660 mm

Date: Nov 1941-1942

From: Millar, John Eldison, 1922- : Letters to parents

Reference: MS-Papers-7942-01

Description: Letters describe Millar's activities during this period In November 1941 Millar went into Burnham Military Camp where he trained with the Signal Corps. In September 1942 he transferred to HMNZ Tamaki on Motuihi Island to undertake naval training. In December he was posted to HMNZ Philomel. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: January 1940

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: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: DA-07108-G

Description: Bernard Cyril Freyberg inspecting World War II MMG soldiers of the 1st echelon at Burnham Military Camp in January 1940. Photograph taken Green & Hahn. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca May 1940]

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: Thomas, A H, active 1941

Reference: DA-12371-F

Description: World War II soldiers of the 3rd echelon waiting for the leave train at Burnham Railway Station. Photograph taken by A H Thomas circa May 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca May 1940]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-8602-41

Description: World War II soldiers of the third echelon at Burnham Camp, Canterbury, circa May 1940, marching to the mess holding tin cups, knives, and forks. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, 5.6.1940 Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, and New Zealand Free Lance, 5 June 1940 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.1 x 20.3 cm