Military camps - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

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: 1865

By: Wolfe, Nathaniel, 1838-1928

Reference: A-343-008

Description: Shows a troop inspection in Christchurch in front of a low barn, with an audience gathered at the left, and a military band in attendance. Tents are pitched behind the troops at the right. A dog bounds across the ground in the foreground. Nathaniel Wolfe was in business as an engraver from 1862, but this work may been made after 1865, from drawings made at the time. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 120 x 235 mm, on paper 188 x 254 mm.

Date: [ca 1913-1955]

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4234

Description: Includes photographs of Balmoral Camp, near Lake Tekapo, a military camp with tents and wooden huts in 1955. A group portrait of soldiers at Bulford Camp during World War I. A group portrait of men in military uniforms in front of a roll of honour for the South African War. The uniforms and cap insignia vary and two civilians are included in the group. According to a typed list which was with the file print (but has been included with this print) the occasion was an annual conference of senior officers of the New Zealand military forces in 1913. The names given are: Maj W R Pinwill, Hon Maj J O'Sullivan, Capt W C Finnis, Capt A B Morton, Lt J M Richmond, Capt A C C Stevens, Capt J R Henderson, F B Mabin, Capt T E Estcourt, Maj J G Hughes, Col J R Purdy, Maj J D Grant, Maj A C Temperley, Lt Col R H Collins, Lt Col H O Knox, Lt Col J B Clymont, Lt Col W G Braithwaite, Lt Col J K Cochrane, Lt Col W R Bloomfield, Lt Col G A Johnstone, Lt Col G J Smith, Col R W Tate, Col J C Nichols, Col G F C Campbell, Lt Col A Bauchop, Maj Gen A J Godley, Col Hon J Allen, Col E W C Chaytor, Lt Col R Logan, Col R A Chaffey, Col A H Russell, Col C T Major. Part of a caption on the reverse gives the location of Buckle St and there is a mural of rural scenes painted on the wall behind the group. The photographer is Zak. Also includes a negative copied from a photograph published in The Weekly Press, 21 January 1900, showing troops on board a ship sailing for the South African War. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s). Provenance: Donated by Army Department, 1968

Date: 3 January-2 July 1942

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-16

Description: Correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil during his service in World War II. Written from the Middle East and Riccarton Military Camp while back in New Zealand on duty, 3 January to 2 July 1942. Includes a letter from New Zealand Military Forces Base Records Director informing Mrs Neil of Major Neil's return to New Zealand on duty as well as three telegrams, two from Major Neil and one from "Defense", also regarding his return. Subjects discussed in letters from Riccarton include having to say goodbye again after period of leave at home and Major Neil's accommodation at Riccarton Racecourse. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes, telegrams, typescript

Date: 6 July-30 August 1942

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-17

Description: Correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil during his service in World War II. Written 6 July to 10 August 1942 while in New Zealand on duty and based out of Riccarton Military Camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes

Date: 7 September-27 October 1942

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-18

Description: Correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil during his service in World War II. Written 7 September to 27 October 1942 while in New Zealand on duty and based out of Riccarton Military Camp. Also contains one letter addressed "Dear Deanie" from a friend in Invercargill regarding a cancelled trip to Wellington. One letter includes a dried flower. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes

Date: 6-23 January 1944

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-30

Description: Correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil during his service in World War II. Written from Burnham Military Camp and other locations in New Zealand as well as from on board a troop ship, 6 to 23 January 1944. Includes description of work and conditions on board the boat. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes

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: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Wolfe, Nathaniel, 1838-1928

Reference: E-106-f-016-1

Description: Shows a troop inspection in Christchurch in front of a low barn, with an audience gathered at the left, and a military band in attendance. Tents are pitched behind the troops at the right. A dog bounds across the ground in the foreground. With accompanying article entitled `Volunteer encampment and inspection at Christchurch, New Zealand'. Published in Illustrated London news, 1865. Nathaniel Wolfe was in business as an engraver from 1862, but this work may have been made after 1865, from drawings made at the time. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 140 x 240 mm

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: 1964 - 1966

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :[Original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1957 to 1968].

Reference: A-310-115

Description: Two men wrapped in blankets outside a group of snow-covered tents, near a mountain Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper ; 280 x 380 mm

Date: 1939-1943

From: Stewart, Thomas Ambrose, 1915-1967: Photographs relating to Stewart's service in World War Two

Reference: PA1-o-1980

Description: Photograph album containing prints taken and collected by Thomas Ambrose Stewart, during his service during World War Two with the 4th Field Ambulance in North Africa and the Middle East. Album includes photographs that show Burnham Camp (including one print showing flooded tents), troopships departing from Port Lyttelton, and photographs taken at sea during Stewart's voyage to Egypt (mainly views of other troopships in the convoy). There are also photographs of ships and wharfs taken at various ports visited on the journey. A series of photographs show World War One memorials and war graves from the Sinai campaign. Egyptian scenes feature Lowry Hut YMCA (Maadi), felucca boats on the Nile River, a felucca in a lock, buildings and sites alongside the Nile (Giza Pyramids, Luxor Winter Palace, the Great Sphinx of Giza), camel rides, local people, and street scenes. Photographs from Jerusalem feature religious sites such as the Garden of Gethsemane, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Dome of the Rock, and a series of images show the interior of a church or churches. Also photographs of the King David Hotel and old city. Images from Alexandria show street scenes, beach scenes, and buildings; these are largely comprised of a commercial set of photographs. There are a large number of photographs of military subjects with many likely taken in Tunisia. These include desert scenes, military training, camp sites, marching drills, field hospitals, and ambulances, tanks, and other military vehicles. Scenes from the aftermath of conflict including crashed aircraft, injured soliders onstretchers, burnt out trucks, and shipwrecks. Photographs show unidentified soldiers, largely in informal portraits or while working or relaxing. Stewart appears in a number of photographs including standing with another man in a trench (Stewart has no shirt on) and in a group portrait taken at Temple Mount (standing on far right of main group). John Alexander McMillan, Carville Munro, and Dennis Rodney Waight also appear in some images. Photographs from an unidentified zoo show animals including a giraffe, rhinoceros. pelicans, and the zoo gardens. Working animals, such as a convoy of [mules?] carrying branches. Beach scenes show wrecked ships, swimmers, beach chairs, and the Australian Club Canteen Services. Information regarding content of album, including identification of soldiers in uncaptioned images, provided by donor. Title supplied by Library Please see PAColl-10575 for identification of John Alexander McMillan, Carville Munro, Dennis Rodney Waight, and Thomas Ambrose Stewart. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 576 b&w photographs (16 loose). Physical Description: Black textured plastic photograph album, 22.5 x 31 cm Processing information: Loose prints that have fallen from album are stored in an envelope with the album.

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: 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

Reference: DA-12868-F

Description: Aerial view of Burnham Military Camp, Canterbury. The Army Service Corps and the Medical Unit were housed in the tents. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1939 and 1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943-1945

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-053

Description: Includes aerial photographs of: Camp Russell and Camp MacKay at Paekakariki; Pauatahanui Camp; Woburn Hostels, Lower Hutt; Seaview/Gracefield; Waiouru Military Camp; Ohakea Air Base 1945; Trentham; Burnham Military Camp 1943; Linton Military Camp 1943; and other unidentified sites Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.