Yerex, George Franklyn, 1893-1967

Date: 1960-1963

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-57

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, reports etc. Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Also includes a large amount of material relating to the Purau affair, a Maori burial ground by Lyttelton Harbour. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1924-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-214

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names not entered in Name field include: Mrs E A Berryman and J Young, 1951; Francis Brett Young; Israel Zangwill (playwright and novelist), 1925; Miss N J Fitch & Colonel W R Young, 1950; H Beebe (Labour candidate), 1931; Sir Basil Zaharoff (Greek financier), 1924; Jack Wright of USA, 1931; H G William (signalman), 1951; Lord Woolton, 1942; Viscount Willingdon (Governor General of Canada), 1930; Lieut Col R C Wickens and adjutant at Addington Training Centre, 1941; Dr T A Wilson of Melbourne, 1927; Harold Wilson (President of Board of Trade) and Eric Johnston (representative of the Hollywood film industry), 1948. John N Willys (millionaire car manufacturer), 1929; Rowland P Wilson, 1932; Mr Buning Willemhouis (Shell oil research expert), 1938; John G Winant (US Ambassador to Great Britain), 1948; Captain L Yancey, 1939; D O Williams (Massey College, Palmerston North); Mr & Mrs Wendell Wilkie & son, 1942; Sir Edward Wilshaw, 1945; David J Winton (Minneapolis), 1941; Sir Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland); Andrei Visninsky, 1947. Senator Keith Wilson of South Australia, 1943; E T Williams (High Commissioner for Australia), 1946; Brigadier General Donald Wilson (Deputy Chief of US Air Staff), 1944; Cardinal Hinsley and Wendell Wilkie, 1941; Bishop J L Wilson & Mrs Wilson of Singapore, 1946; K S Williams of Bay of Plenty, 1931; Henry Williamson (Author), 1935-1938; Omarama Collie Dog Club 31st annual trials (J Aubrey, E Williamson & `Sandy' Wigley), 1946. Series of photographs relating New Zealand Workers Union [Conference?], 1951 - Names on photos include: Edmond Ohai (National representative United Mine Workers), H Rolton (Christchurch Secretary Canterbury Glass Workers Union); W Harnett (Gisborne National Vice-President of NZ Workers Union), H Maynard (Gisborne, National Representative of NZ Workers Union); F Crook (Dunedin, National Secretary of United Mine Workers of NZ), W Orr (NSW), J White (Greymouth, National member of United Mine Workers of NZ); R T Newman (Christchurch, Canterbury President of Storemen, Packers & Wharehousemen's Union), E J Patton (Dunedin, Secretary Otago Storemen, Packers & Wharehousemen's Union), S A Whitehead (Nelson, Secretary Nelson S.P. & W Union), W Miller (Auckland, National Secretary S.P. & W Federation). P F Wingrove (Secretary of the Tail Waggers' Club, Wellington); T W (Pat) Williams, 1931; R Wilson (representing NZ at the High Movable Conference of the Independent Order of Rechabites in England), 1929; J G Wilson (wrote history of Hatuma), Jack Russell (chairman of Jubilee Comittee) and R McRae (son of one of first setllers), 1951. Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1962-1963

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-69

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field. Includes pages from `Health' with photographs by Pascoe. Arrangement: The contents of the folder remain in the order in which they were received; only the first letter from a correspondent is entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5926-38

Description: Major George Franklyn Yerex explaining points of topography at the army school of bush and mountain warfare in the Tararua Ranges, circa 1944. Man on left is unidentified. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.3 x 20.3 cm

Date: 1942-1943

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-061

Description: Photographs of American forces in New Zealand from their time of arrival in Auckland and Wellington. Some are captioned. Includes views of arrival by ship; RNZAF welcoming band; marching to railway station and from station to camp; drinking milk; `shooting craps'; Army School of Bush & Mountain Warfare, 1943; US Naval Base Hospital, Silverstream (interior); telephone operator; gunners; light artillery practise; Christmas celebrations at US Naval Hospital, Auckland; American nurses outside Auckland war Memorial Museum; Camp MacKay; US soldiers receiving citation orders; Marine Corps at Wellington War Memorial showing Parliament Buildings and Bowen Street in the background; etc. Captioned photos include: Wing Commander R J Cohen, Air Commodore M V Buckley & Commodore E Rotheram; American officers of the Navy and Marine Corps attending a special New Year festival at Ngaruawahia Pa showing Princes Te Puea with Captain S D Jupp; onel J H Nankivell, US military attache in Wellington, presenting citations at US naval hospital, Wellington, 1943; Brigadier General P Hurley addressing a meeting; Chief Petty Officer Artie Shaw; Admiral William F Halsey's visit to Auckland accompanied by Commodore Sir Atwell Lake, Lt Commander Brooks Clifford & Captain S D Jupp; Major G F Yerex, commandant of Army School of Bush & Mountain Warfare with Staff Sergeant A C Hulme and US Marine Corps officer, 1943. Quantity: 157 b&w original photographic print(s).