World War, 1914-1918 - Military facilities - Egypt

Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1913

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. - Features three pictures under the heading "1st Wedding in the NZ ANS [New Zealand Army Nursing Service] - Cairo", taken at the wedding of Nurse Mildred Jane Ellis and Lieutenant Alexander Edward Wrottesley Salt at Cairo, 21 May 1916. - Includes photographs taken in Egypt circa 1915-1916 showing gate of New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, military personnel posing with camels at the pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, temple ruins and pillars at Luxor, group portrait of Egyptian women, and hospital train in Alexandria. Other images show the sultan's palace, the sultan's guard, a swing bridge over a canal in Barrage Gardens, the river Nile, and the citadel of Cairo. - Images from England feature Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, also the Rufus Stone and Compton Arms Hotel, in New Forest. Photographs taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, show interior views showing hospital wards, building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. - Scotland is featured in images taken at Edinburgh, Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, and at Loch Lomond. - From New Zealand there are photographs of a parade of Reinforcements at Trentham. - Australian scenes include troops marching past Dog Rock in Albany, Western Australia. - Also includes image of a Canadian Women's Motor Ambulance and the Cunard Line ship RMS 'Aquitania'. - A series of images of Gallipoli probably not taken by Newell. Arrangement: Album originally received with eight loose prints and greeting card enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: Manufactured by the Heinn Co. Milwaukee, Wis[consin] 0663), black leather binding with title, 'Jaunts Abroad', in gilt lettering on cover, black pages with plain paper interleaving, 18 x 30 cm.

Date: 1915

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-9029-050

Description: Papers and notes on the Wazzir riots in Cairo in 1915. Includes article on Ettie Rout and extracts from official war history. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 31 pages.

Date: ca October 1918-ca July 1919

From: Field-Dodgson, Ernest Robert, 1926-1999 :World War I photograph albums compiled by trooper C L Crowley

Reference: PA1-o-170

Description: Photo album, World War I, ex late trooper Crowley, C. L. Canterbury Mounted Rifles (34th Reinforcements). Images taken in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey. One group relates to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Photographer possibly Crowley himself. The images in this album were probably taken at the very end of the war in the Middle East, and reflect what happened after the Armistice with Turkey on the 31st of October 1918. The Gallipoli episode in the album relates to the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and the 2nd and 7th Australian Light Horse Brigades leaving Kantara on the 27th of November 1918 for the Gallipoli Peninsula. The purpose of this was to take part in the Allied occupation of the Dardanelles and Constantinople and specifically to see that Turkey was carrying out its commitments under the terms of the Armistice in the southern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula. They did not take their horses on this operation. During this tour of duty most of the troops took leave in Constantinople. They returned to Egypt in January 1919, by which time the New Zealand Mounted Rifles had were encamped at Rafa. They rejoined the rest of the Brigade at Rafa on the 23rd of January 1919. They remained in Egypt to help control civil disturbances, so that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were not disbanded until June 1919, and the soldiers began their journey home that month and in July. (Info from "The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine," Lieutenant-Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1922, chapter X1X; "The History of The Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-1919, Edited by Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1928, chapter X1X). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue suede album, entitled Photographs, 21 x 27 cm

Date: 16 Aug 1942, 5 Sep 1943, 2003

By: Feary, Catherine, active 2003

Reference: MS-Papers-8802

Description: Two letters from John Alexander (Jock) Feary to Catherine Feary, describing life at Maadi Camp in Egypt during World War Two. Letter from Catherine Feary giving background of J A Feary included. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Catherine Feary, 2007

Date: 1943-1946

By: O'Dowd, Margaret, active 1943-1946

Reference: fMS-Papers-9525

Description: Scrapbook kept by Peggy O'Dowd while serving with WAAC at Trentham Military Camp, Egypt, Rome, Italy, on leave in Britain and later back in Auckland, New Zealand. Newspaper clippings, typescripts of poems, both original and copies, letters, sketches, programmes, invitation cards, photographs, RSA badges and other items. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript, printed matter, sketches, photos Transfers: Three photographs transferred to the Photograph Collection - To Photographic Archive - 3 photos.

Date: 1915-1916

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

Reference: PAColl-6972-9

Description: Most of the images are of soldiers convalescing in military hospitals in Cairo. There are interior views of wards and other living interiors. Others show soldiers recovering in the open air or grouped together with nurses. There are unidentified events involving uniformed soliers and several photographs of a military encampment on the banks of the Nile. There are two photographs of A Valerie Goodchild with her ambulance. Egyptians and their occupations also feature such as men working the technology for irrigation, snake chalmers, syrup sellers and farmers. Postcards show public buildings in Cairo, the tombs of the Mamelouks, Luna Park in Heliopolis, and the Railway Station Alexandria. Quantity: 153 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1914 - 1918

By: Church Army (Church of England)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-GB-01

Description: Flyer and pamphlets issued by the Church Army, part of the Church of England in Britain: Church Army recreation huts, tents and clubs at the front; founder and honorary Chief Secretary Prebendary Wilson Carlile ... In the wilderness of Sinai, the Church Army has many recreation huts & tents .... 100 [One hundred] recreation huts, tents and centres have been lost by the Church Army ... they must be replaced What the Church Army is doing .... Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and relief prints, sizes varying up to 255 mm.

Date: 1992-1993

By: Brassington, Ruth Diana, active 1970-2014

Reference: MS-Papers-11652

Description: Edited manuscript of Hilda Walker's autobiography. Includes a letter from Barbara Neale giving editing advice, and a later letter from Daphne Brassell saying she did not think it was publishable. The autobiography was later published as "Full circle" in 1997, by Walker. Researchers are recommended to read the published version, rather than this draft. Also includes a RAOC women officers validity card for purchases at officers' shops, made out to Marjory Dorothy Rossiter. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, mss (photocopies) Provenance: Brassington edited this autobiography but was not successful in finding a publisher. The book was later published in a different form by Walker Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms Ruth Brassington, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 3 photographs of women officers and army scenes from World War II (PAColl-10179).

Date: [ca 1942-1943]

From: Aydon, Godfrey William, 1911-1981: Collection relating to service in World War II

Reference: MS-Papers-9253

Description: Tickets, programmes, guides and other ephemera collected by Godfrey William Aydon in Cairo and Palestine. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Transfers: Transferred to the Manuscripts section from the Photograph Archived the photographs from the Aydon collection as PAColl-9339. Processing information: Record revised on 23rd May 2016 - original record title was "Aydon, Geoffrey W: Papers relating to Palestine and Egypt".

Date: 1915, 1919

From: Eccles, Martin Ashton, 1893-1973: Diaries

Reference: MSX-4986

Description: In Feb 1915 Eccles enlisted in the Army and sailed for Egypt in June. After being based at Camp he briefly served in the Gallipoli Campaign during Nov and Dec, 1915. The diary contains intermittent entries, with no entries being made when nothing of interest to the writer was happening. Accompanied by Certificate of Discharge, 28 Aug 1919 and printed certificate awarding the the Gallipoli Medallion and the Gallipoli lapel badge to Eccles. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter

Date: 28 August 1914-13 January 1916 - 1916-1974

From: Claridge, Cyril James, 1890-1976: Memoir scrapbook diary and papers

Reference: MSY-8364

Description: Volume comprising memoir scrapbook diary with entries and narrative descriptions, illustrated by mounted maps, photographic prints, newspaper clippings, and ephemera material, including a visiting card. Title page states: "Diary of C. J. Claridge 12/977 - Auckland Infantry, August 1914 - January 1916: While serving in the Auckland Infantry Battalion. New Zealand Expeditionary Force". The diary describes activities and travel: - Departure from Morrinsville for Auckland, and "Getting into the army". - Military training at "Potter's Park [also known as Potter's Paddock, now Alexandra Park] and Eden Park. - Departure from Auckland on the transport ship 'Waimana' (HMNZT No. 12). - Voyage on the 'Waimana' down East Coast of New Zealand to Wellington. - Trans-Tasman voyage to Hobart and from there to Albany, Colombo, Red Sea, Suez, Aden, Port Said, and Alexandria. - Military camp at Zeitoun, service in Egypt including march through Cairo. - Training, security patrols, and other military duties at Ishmailia, El Ferdan, and Serapeum. - Departure from Alexandria bound for Gallipoli (Dardanelles), via Lemnos Island, in April 1915. - Landing, 25 April 1915, and military action at Achi Baba - this is elaborated on in a section titled "The Anzacs and Achi Baba". - Relocation to Cape Helles, and reference to Daisy Patch, where Claridge describes being injured on 8 May 1915. - Taken aboard the HMHS 'Braemar Castle' and returned to Alexandria. - Voyage from Alexandria to Malta, where time is spent in hospital, before being transported on HMHS 'Ascania' to England. - Visits to Plymouth, Birmingham, Weymouth, and London. - Descriptions of travel to New Zealand, departing from Plymouth on SS 'Ruahine' on 17 November 1915 and voyage via Teneriffe, Cape Town, Hobart, and arrival back in Auckland on 5 January 1916. Numerous items enclosed, laid- and tipped in, including newspaper clippings. Newspaper clippings include: - 'New Zealand Herald', 14 June [1974] with image captioned "Mr Liddle looks through a diary written by Mr C. J. Claridge, aged 85, of Rothesay Bay, of experiences at Gallipoli". - 'The Auckland Star', 12 October 1954, showing parade of troops. Annotated copies of maps mounted in volume: - 'Sketch map to illustrate Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch', from 'Life', 1 May 1916, page 360. - 'Environs of Cairo and the Pyramids', published by A & C Black Ltd, London, imprint: John Bartholomew & Co. Edinburgh. Printed visiting card of Laura Jane Boddington (1863-1938) - "Mrs Laura J Boddington, 340 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham" (laid in at page 89). Mounted photographic prints include group portrait of Gallipoli veterans at 50th anniversary meeting at Auckland War Memorial Museum on 16 October 1964. Ephemera mounted in diary includes: printed leaflet promoting free entry to "Grand Casino Bosphore - Soldier's Rest" at Bab El Hadid Square; "Cazino Ambassadeur" at Avenue Farouk, Cairo; and "Kursaal Music-Hall" at Emad el Din Street, Heliopolis. Also includes a 6-page letter from Claridge to his mother, dated Camp Zeitoun, 20 March 1915 (laid in at page 143), and a postcard to his mother dated 7 April 1915, featuring the 3rd Auckland Company marching, with annotations naming some subjects, including Claridge (mounted page 50). Some of the newspaper articles were written by Claridge or based on his communications (see for example mounted articles facing page 50), while others published excerpts from the diary (see page 67). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume, cloth binding with "Claridge" label on front cover, holograph manuscript on ruled pages, photographic prints, newspaper clippings, and ephemera, mounted and loose items laid in, 32 x 19.5 cm. Transfers: Papers originally enclosed with volume now at MS-Papers-12360..

Date: 1914-1915

From: Martin, W W :World War One albums of Mr Laurie C Mackie

Reference: PA1-o-308

Description: Photograph album created by Laurie Mackie during his time fighting in World War I, in Egypt and Gallipoli. Inscriptions: Album page - To Mother with best wishes, from Laurie (8/3/15). Egypt Arrangement: Copy negatives from images in this album are housed at C 4585 to C 4652 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured brown cloth cover, edged with faded gold line; 24 x 29 cm

Date: January 1916

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-604-30-7

Description: A horse suspended between the shafts of an overloaded Egyptian cart. Photographed by an unknown photographer in January 1916. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - An overloaded Gippy horse Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.3 x 5.8 cms

Date: 1915

From: Denniston, George Gordon, 1885-1958 :Photograph albums relating to World War I including the Gallipoli campaign

Reference: PA1-o-862

Description: Album of photographs compiled by George Gordon Denniston illustrating a soldier's experience of of the Gallipoli campaign, April to September 1915. Photographer(s) unidentified. Album covers the period when Denniston left New Zealand in April 1915 for Egypt, and his time in a military camp there on the outskirts of Alexandria, from where, it seems, he left for Gallipoli. At the begining there are two photographs of the Samoan Expeditionary Force returning to New Zealand. The rest show soldiers preparing to leave and scenes on board ship which include stabled horses being fed en route, and dead ones being dropped overboard. Shipboard life and activities are well documented. There are many photos of fellow soldiers and some of the Asian crewmen. Ships and islands seen while passing through the Red Sea are depicted. Also some views of streets and people in Suez. Finally Alexandria and camp life. Over half the album is taken up with life and events at the military camp at Sidi Bishr which seems to have been situated near one of the suburban outskirts of Alexandria. This experience has been recorded in some detail, and includes social visits from women, views of French cavalry exercises, care and maintenance of the horses, native funerals and camp life in general. The last photograph inthe album shows a gun in action at Gallipoli. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).