War wounds

Date: 1915, 1974-1997

By: Milburn, Bruce Alan, 1925-2007

Reference: MSX-4559

Description: Comprises copy of photograph of J H Milburn and copy from page of his diary; introduction by donor describing J H Milburn, his background, life, time and experiences in the army and other matters; copies of maps showing campaign movements, introduction and edited transcription by Grant Milburn, of diary kept by J H Milburn. J H Milburn wrote brief daily entries about military actions undertaken, listed members of his platoon and whether they were killed, survived, wounded or died; he describes Gallipoli in considerable detail, and subsequent events, and his later dysentery and the various forms of treatment given. He writes of his time in hospital in Malta and in England and describes life outside hopsital in both places. An address list, abbreviations, notes on firing, currencies, phrases in Turkish, Egyptian and French, and a clipping by Paul Bolding `Name revives bitter memories' from the `Evening post' (1985) Source of title - Transcribed J H Milburn, grand-father of the donor, joined the NZ army in 1914, served at Gallipoli in 1915 and was discharged from the army in 1918. The diary covers 1915 only; it is not known if he kept other diaries. His regiment is given as the Taranaki Regiment of the Wellington Rifles. According to the donor, the transcription by Grant Milburn was `compiled and edited' by him. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts and line drawings (some photocopies) (in case folder)

Date: [ca 1991]

By: Richardson, John, active 1930-1991

Reference: MS-Papers-10709

Description: Richardson summarises his experiences under `Capitaos inglisi or the Captain with the Crooked Face' and further describes his experiences in letters to John and Julie Snadden Source of title - Supplied Richardson was a prisoner of war during WWII and these papers covers his experiences in Bardia, Bari, Parama and Altamura hospitals in the Western desert and Italy, and in Camp 82 in Italy Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss

Date: 1698

By: Rugendas, Georg Philipp I, 1666-1742; Rugendas, Christian Johann, 1708-1781; Redman, William Edward (Dr), -1940

Reference: A-267-015

Description: The aftermath of a battle, possibly at or near Augsburg, the artist's war-torn birthplace. There are dead men and a dead horse in the foreground, a broken carriage, a canon, wounded men, soldiers on horseback and on foot, ruined arches and ruined buildings in flames. "Aug. Vind." in the title is an abbreviation for Augusta Vindelicum, the Latin name for Augsburg, the home of the artist and his son, the engraver. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Sepia mezzotint, 182 x 317 mm on sheet 192 x 324 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Dr W. E. Redman.

Date: 1950 - 1972

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001; Daily mail (London, England)

Reference: A-369-199/209

Description: Mainly caricatures and drawings of sporting figures who flourished in the 1940-1950s. Includes soccer players Jack Lee, Neil Franklin and Dennis Compton (also cricket), Welsh rugby player Ken Jones, boxer Don Cockell, jockey Lester Piggott and an unnamed sportsman, Rowe. Smaller illustrations cover material related to rowing and commuting. Quantity: 10 newsclippings.. Physical Description: Newsprint clippings stuck onto black card, sizes vary.

Date: Jan 1917-Feb 1919

From: Olsson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7899-2

Description: Letters from Olsson while on active service during World War One to his family in New Zealand, first from Featherston and Trentham, then en route to England, Sling, London, France and Belgium, and England while he was in hospital. While not being specific about where he was he describes the daily life of a soldier, where and how they were living, such as billets, some war events and also mentioned items such as letters and postcards he was sending to his family to keep for him when he returned. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1695

By: Rugendas, Georg Philipp I, 1666-1742; Rugendas, Christian Johann, 1708-1781; Redman, William Edward (Dr), -1940

Reference: A-267-011

Description: The aftermath of a battle, possibly at or near Augsburg, the artist's war-torn birthplace. There are dead men and a dead horse in the foreground, wounded soldiers being attended to and ruined buildings in the background "Aug. Vind." in the title is an abbreviation for Augusta Vindelicum, the Latin name for Augsburg, the home of the artist and his son, the engraver. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Sepia mezzotint, 149 x 270 mm on sheet 160 x 277 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Dr W. E. Redman.

Date: 1918

From: Photographs of the Great War

Reference: PAColl-D-0473

Description: National Library photograph exhibition on New Zealanders and the Great War. Six photographs of three soldiers showing the type of wounds suffered to the face and the results of reconstructive plastio facio-maxillary surgery undertaken at Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England by Henry Percy Pickerill and Captain Rhind. Images taken from the Sidcup album [PA1-0-467] Quantity: 6 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 6 prints, 100 x 60 mm, mounted for display in exhibition

Date: 1941

By: Shaw, Reginald Stevens, 1917-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-9968

Description: Shaw describes an incident during the Greek campaign when two soldiers were holed up for three days out of four from before daylight to after dark; another extract is written while on a train in Egypt and describes camp conditions, rations, thoughts and mentions `this accursed desert'; the third extract relates Shaw's experiences following a wounding to his right arm and getting to hospital Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with holograph corrections and additions

Date: 7 June - 17 Aug 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Potts, Bertram, 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0006/65

Description: Gives details of family background in England, emigration to New Zealand in 1911. Describes voyage out, recollections of Wellington, positions with the New Zealand Times. Recalls enlistment in 1915 with New Zealand Rifle Brigade, medical examination for enlistment, parents' attitute to war, German boarder and his treatment in New Zealand during the war. Describes training at Trentham, voyage and ports of call on way to England with 14th Reinforcements, training at Sling Camp and Etaples, action at Fleurbaix, Ploegsteert Wood, Battle of Messines. Describes his job as a runner, the trenches. Refers to Pat Lawlor. Gives details of his injury - shell concussion (shell shock), the symptoms, hospitalised at Arques and then sent to Walton-on-Thames - Oakland Park Hotel (converted into hospital). Recalls conditions in France, lice, divisional baths, drinking, the estaminets. On return to New Zealand went to inspect rehabilitation land at Whangamomona in Taranaki. Recalls visit to America in 1920s, working as copywriter for Ilott Advertising, and his involvement with Esperanto. Gives his views on the RSA. Venue - Lower Hutt; Taita Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Aroha Home, Taita, Lower Hutt and the home of Nicholas Boyack, Lower Hutt Accompanying material - Newspaper article '70 years of married bliss celebrated', Indrea Alexander, Evening Post, June 1, 1990 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002734 - OHC-002738 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s) in five sessions. 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 507, OHDL-000345. Black and white photograph of Bertram Potts, 1989 Search dates: 1989

Date: 1695

By: Rugendas, Georg Philipp I, 1666-1742; Rugendas, Christian Johann, 1708-1781; Redman, William Edward (Dr), -1940

Reference: A-267-013

Description: The aftermath of a battle, possibly at or near Augsburg, the artist's war-torn birthplace. There are wounded men being attended to in the foreground, surgical instruments, pieces of armour, a large tent (as a field hospital?) being erected, and smoke from burning buildings in the background "Aug. Vind." in the title is an abbreviation for Augusta Vindelicum, the Latin name for Augsburg, the home of the artist and his son, the engraver. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Sepia mezzotint, 149 x 224 mm on sheet 170 x 231 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Dr W. E. Redman.

Date: 1958

From: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971 :[Illustrations for Heroes of peace and war by A. H. Reed. 1958 or 1959]

Reference: A-060-010

Description: Charles Heaphy in uniform, bandaging the upper arm of a wounded Maori soldier The illustrations in Heroes of Peace and War include captions not present on these original drawings Extended Title - Reproduced in: Reed, A H. Heroes of peace and war in early New Zealand. Wellington, Reed, 1959 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, b&w, 306 x 436 mm

Date: 1945

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-080

Description: Includes a narrative by Private Benjamin Rata and describes his experiences in the Middle East, everyday life, campaigns. losses and a structural map Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 29 Apr 1864

Reference: MS-Papers-2980

Description: Names of those killed and wounded. Includes: Name, rank, ship on which they served, nature of the injury. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (Photocopies)

Date: 9 Oct 1989 - 09 Oct 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Lawrence, Charles George, 1897-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/47

Description: Family background, death of father in 1901, life with grandmother on West Coast, how he became shellshocked, work on West Coast, attitude on West Coast to territorials, military. Enlistment, training at Trentham and Featherston, left with 17th Reinforcements in 1916, Sling Camp, attitude to British instructors, impression of United Kingdom, food at Sling Camp and training, Etaples, One Blanket Hill, Messines, Ploegsteert Wood, Passchendaele, experience as a sniper, refusal to kill German, infantry hit by own artillery shelling at Passchendaele, sniping incidents, Nimot, General Godley, Braithwaite, fighting during Second Battle of the Somme, German pill boxes and wounded by shell in 1918. Recalls American hospital at Le Havre, pleurisy, trench feet, Brockenhurst Hospital, convalescent home at Torquay, food in France, views on French, prostitutes, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, entertainment companies, two-up, YMCA, relationship with officers, lice, self inflicted wounds, executions, suicides, conscription, gas attacks, return to New Zealand, war brides, career since war, health, rehabilitation, opinion of RSA, drunkeness, job as a frameworker, territorials, bringing German rifles back to New Zealand, home guard (Fort Dorset during World War II). Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Lawrence's home at 45 Britannia street, Petone Accompanying material - Copy of newspaper article 'No regrets - 65 years together', Evening Post, 21/4/1988 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002684 - OHC-002686 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 489, OHDL-000334. Black and white photograph of Charlie Lawrence, 1989

Date: 10 Aug 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Jenkin, Ralph Meredith, 1896-1988

Reference: OHInt-0006/44

Description: Describes family background in Thames, outbreak of war, enlistment in 1916, Featherston Camp, transport, Sling Camp, life and duties as a signaller, training as a signaller, Ypres, cleaning up after Passchendaele, two up, and crown and anchor, duckboards, German pillboxes, rats, French civilians, estaminets, German Push of 1918, work as part of emergency signalling crew operating lamps, dugout blown up, being gassed, effects of gas, leave in London, venereal disease, Pioneer Battalion, wounds, Le Quesnoy, German prisoners, discipline, drinking, executions, Lark Hill Camp, special early return for apprentices, career since the war, marriage, attitude to RSA, Anzac Day, and war in general, hobbies. Venue - Christchurch Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Jenkin's home at 124 Scarborough Road, Sumner, Christchurch Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 486, OHDL-000331. Black and white photographs:-. Ralph Jenkin, 1988. Ralph Jenkin, 1916

Date: 11 Aug 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Lane, Thomas Charles, 1893-1990

Reference: OHInt-0006/46

Description: Details of family background in Wales and Herefordshire. Life as child of farm labourer in United Kingdom. Work as a farm labourer, poverty, decision to emigrate to Australia then New Zealand, farm work in North Canterbury and enlistment, Tauherenikau Camp, work for local farmer, sailed with 11th Reinforcements, describes Egypt, Tel el Kebir, Gallipoli veterans, impression of Maori (Pioneer) Battalion, describes in detail Etaples, Sling Camp, prostitution, venereal disease, Ettie Rout, Armentieres, Delville Wood, tanks, creeping barrages, Messines. Recalls being a lewis gunner, shell shock, Passchendaele, development of trench feet, treatment, gas attacks, impressions of an American field hospital, treatment of blacks, return to Front, Le Quesnoy, to Germany with Army of Occupation, billet in Cologne, as quatermaster sergeant, executions, spying, desertions, Etaples mutiny, brutality, 'Bully' Fulton, New Zealand discipline, saluting, attitude to British troops, General Godley, songs, two-up, padres, Parr. Describes return to New Zealand ca 1920, marriage, work in the malt house, family, rehabilitation farms racket, 1930s Depression, collapse of rehabilitation farms, relief work during Depression, involvement with Millers' and Brewers' Union, view of RSA, drinking, present life, nightmares about war, trench life, food, lice, rats, soldiers loans, health after World War I, effect of trench feet, current political view, souvenirs, attitude to Americans. Venue - Rangiora Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Lane's home at Tyler Courts, Durham Street, Rangiora Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002679 - OHC-002683 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 4.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 488, OHDL-000333. Black and white photographs:-. Tom Lane, 1988. Tom Lane [in uniform], undated. Tom Lane [with group, in uniform], undated. Tom Lane as farm worker in England before emigration [in group], undated

Date: 4 Jul 1989 - 04 Jul 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Morriss, William Murray, 1897-1992

Reference: OHInt-0006/58

Description: Describes family background, father first settler around Eketahuna, Rongokokako School, details of farm work, Cadets, patriotism, Scandinavian settlers, enlistment under age, reaction of parents, Trentham and Featherston Camps, the 'send-off', dances at Rongo Hall, transport on 'Ararima', Capetown, racism in South Africa, Sierra Leone. Arrival at Sling Camp, English civiliams, prostitution, Les Waterish, training as a signaller, talking to Germans in Ploegsteert Wood, training and living conditions at Sling Camp, Etaples, 21st birthday in Glasgow, Pont de Nieppe, why he missed Passchendaele, trench feet, treatment and later post-war trouble, Wattle Dump, the Second Somme, detailed description of killing, being wounded, dressing station at the Salvation Army, recovery at Walton-on-Thames, bayonetting Germans, sees Nicholas win a Victoria Cross, gas, lice, and rats. Recalls two-up, rum, singing, change in attitude to religion, UK troops, cakes from New Zealand, Private Nimot, shell shock, post war recovery at Hanmer Hospital, executions, English brides, T E Y Seddon, heart ailment, Sling riot, return to New Zealand in 1919, work for farmers near Sling Camp in UK. Describes in detail getting rehabilitation farm and shell shock treatment in 1921, treatment at Hanmer Hospital, condition of farm, formation of RSA in Eketahuna, surviving the 1930s depression, what he told civilians about the war. Venue - Eketahuna Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - At Murray Morriss' home at Rongokokako, R.D.2, Eketahuna Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 500. Black and white photographs:-. Murray Morriss, 1989. Murray Morriss and his sister, undated [Murray in army uniform]

Date: 12 Sept 1988 - 12 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/83

Description: Describes in detail family background (father at Chelsea Sugar Refinery), education, employment, and life in Auckland pre war (selling 'Truth' newspapers, warehouse work), apprenticeship as a blacksmith and details of work. Recalls enlistment, guarding ammunition factory in Normanby Road, ceremonial duties, military funerals, the Mount Eden Guards. Transfer to being a guard at Motuihe Island, details of guard duty, relations with German internees, anti German feeling in Auckland, living conditions of internees, various anecdotes, Count von Luckner Kircheiss, his escape from Motuihe in detail, Dr Schultz. Transport overseas with the 41st Reinforcements, morale among conscripts, death of "Taffy" Herbert Lloyd Dash. Describes ports of call, especially Capetown, submarine attacks. Recalls arrival at Sling Camp, training and discipline, military burials at Tidworth Cemetery in detail, and being accidentally gassed, describes sensation, Tidworth Hospital, being transported back to New Zealand as an invalid. Describes first marriage, children, Moerewa freezing works, then a slaughterman, his career with various freezing works in detail, involvement with RSA at Kawakawa and other places, Anzac Day parades, effect of gassing on his life, being a freezing worker during the 1930 Depression, the bobby calf scheme and calf pools. Recalls venereal disease prevention, relations with British, hobbies, deep sea fishing, views on present RSA, and government. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Ranfurly War Veterans' Home, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002790 - OHC-002792 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) in two parts. 3 Electronic document(s) - transcript, summary. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 525/1 - 2, OHDL-000362. Black and white photographs:-. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins and striped marlin, ca 1960s. Bill Wiggins and second wife, Dorothy, 1948. Bill Wiggins, his daughters, and brother, during World War Two. Bill Wiggins, fishing trip, 1921. Bill Wiggins and daughters, 1941. Bill Wiggins and Dave Whitehead, undated. Bill Wiggins, 1915

Date: 20 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Hutchinson, William Norman, 1898-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/41

Description: Gives details of family background, childhood spent in Birkenhead, schooling with reference to school cadets at Auckland Grammar. Mentions father and brother also served in World War I. Describes enlistment, training at Featherston as a machine gunner, being sent overseas with 29th Reinforcements in 1917, Sling Camp, Etaples and Ypres. He was in the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps No. 3 and describes his experience at the Front, being phosgene gassed, time at base hospital at Boulogne. Refers to mustard gas patients and the nursing and wounds of gas patients in detail. Recalls transfer to Southwark Military Hospital, Hornchurch and Codford and return to Auckland, subsequent breakdown and hospitalisation from shell shock. Describes his symptoms, treatment and recuperation in the country, attitudes of doctors. Recalls recreation during World War I, songs sung, gambling, leave in London, prostitutes, and venereal disease. Gives details of self-inflicted wounds, executions, his own attitude to war. Recalls World War II experience and being involved with the machine gun school at Alexandra Park. Gives his views on RSA, ANZUS issue, Anzac Day and reasons for throwing away his war medals. Describes his retirement and involvement with North Shore Old People's Welfare Council, his hobby of polishing stones. Recalls the time spent in India on tea business and Dr McCarrisson's theory on vitamins. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Hutchinson's home at 21 Beresford Street, Bayswater, Auckland Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) in two parts. 3 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-0483/1 - 2, OHDL-000329. Black and white photographs:-. Norman and Eileen Hutchinson, 1988. Norman and Eileen Hutchinson on their wedding day, undated. Norman Hutchinson, early 1917. Norman Hutchinson, father, mother, brother and sister in early days of war

Date: 8 Nov 1989 - 08 Nov 1989

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Sargent, Leslie Maurice Stewart, 1898-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/70

Description: Recalls family backgrund (father a bullock teamster at Turakina), education, conflict with father, printing apprenticeship, running away from home, enlistment under age, meeting future wife, training at Trentham and Featherston, transport with 10th Reinforcements via Egypt to France, reaction of family to enlistment, transport on 'Willochra'. Describes Armentieres, first impressions of trenches, listening posts at The Salient, training with machine gun, the Battle of the Somme, seeing death of friends, being wounded, sent to Hornchurch, return to Front, being badly injured by shrapnel at Passchendaele, recovery in King George Hospital - London, billets, food in France, shelling, views on Germans, German dug-outs, Battle of Passchendaele, relationship with officers and saluting, gambling, drunkeness, Salvation Army at Front, views on English and leave in Britain, Brockenhurst. Return to New Zealand and long account of getting government pension for wounds received. Marriage, children and post-war career. Venue - Wanganui Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Sargent's home at Flat 4, 11 Pitt Street, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002748 - OHC-002751 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 512, OHDL-000350. Black and white photographs:-. Les Sargent, 1989. Les Sargent, 1916