Māori soldiers

Date: 1945-1947

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0370

Description: File 166 - Contains finances of the station and also a programme regarding the dedication ceremony to Maori soldiers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1944-1945

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0250

Description: File 54 - Contains papers regarding Maori conferences such as in Ruatoria re the rehab of soliders, housing, welfare, iwi and also another hui re the maintenance of the Maori council Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca1900]-1936

From: Karauti, Horopapera, 1878-1932 :Photographs of family, Te Aute, and World War 1 soldiers

Reference: PAColl-8921-3

Description: Family photographs of mainly women, some wearing traditional cloaks. A wedding group. Maori soldiers in the first World war. Portraits of Lieutenant Horo Karauti taken in 1916. Snapshots taken on board ship and in Egypt during the First world war. Levin District High School girls sports teams taken in 1936. An unidentified concert party. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1948

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7575-224

Description: Contains nine letters and a handwritten note from Ngata to Lorna Ngata referring to family matters and also to Henare Ngata's detention in a prisoner of war camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Sir Henare Ngata gave these to Whai Ngata on November 24th 2005, Whai Ngata holds photocopies

Date: [ca Aug 1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-031

Description: K-Force Maori privates Api and Clendon enjoying a cup of coffee upon their arrival in Darwin, circa August 1951. Taken by a photographer for the `New Zealand Free Lance'. Published in the `New Zealand Free Lance', 29 August, 1951, with the caption "Maori privates Api and Clendon enjoy hot coffee". Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Wahine wreck; centre - Maori privates Api & Clendon. Coffee; top right - p 29/8/51 After running aground on a Masela Island reef in the Arafura Sea, about 280 miles due north of Darwin, with 570 New Zealand troops for Korea, the t.s.s Wahine was abandoned to the underwriters, and the troops, officers and crew were taken aboard the tanker Stanvac Karachi which came to the Wahine's assistance..." (Information from the `New Zealand Free Lance', 29 August, 1951) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.7 x 18.5 cm

Date: 1940-1941

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1374

Description: Personal record of a soldier in the Maori Battalion of the journey from New Zealand to Egypt, Second World War. Begins with troops lined up on the show grounds at Palmerston North on the 31st of April 1940. Troops embarked on the 1st of May 1940 and sailed for Fremantle, Australia, and were there by the 8th of May. There are photographs of Fremantle Harbour, Perth University, and Maori soldiers with Australian friends. Also photographs of Maori soldiers on deck of ship. The troops sailed from Femantle in a convoy that included the liner transports, Queen Mary, Aquitania, Empress of Japan, Empress of Britain, Mauretania, and Andes. They were in Capetown on the 16 May 1940, and Freetown, Siera Leone on the 23 May. The convoy arrived at Greenock on the Clyde River, Scotland, on the 6th of June 1940. From the 8th of June 1940 to the 2nd of January 1941 the troops were stationed in the south east of England where they did battle training. The places include Bognor, Aldershot, Bostling Green, and Guildford. On the 3rd of January the troops embarked on the Athlone Castle, part of a large convoy of transports and warships bound for Egypt, which they reached on the 1st of March 1941. There are two panoramic views of the convoy, and many photographs of the Maori troops on board the Athlone Castle. In Egypt photographs show the troops landing, the camp at Maadi, gardens at Helwan, training in the desert, views of Cairo, and tours to the pyramids. The last part of the album are photographs of Capetown and its surroundings, other unidentified places, and more snaps taken in Egypt. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1945

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0374

Description: File 170 - Contains accounts, records and correspondence regarding the establishment of buildings in the Tairawhiti area, particularly at Hiruharama and Rangitukia, and relating to the Iritekura wharenui (meeting-house). Includes documents in te reo Māori titled "Hui whakatuwheratanga whare whakairo" relating to the tuwheratanga (opening) of the hall at Hiruharama in 1945, accompanied by translations in English language. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

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: 1941

By: Wood, Basil Reginald, 1916-2007

Reference: PAColl-9838

Description: Photographic postcards, on Voigtlaender branded paper, showing Maori concert group and men dressed as Pacific Islanders, in theatrical productions at Oflag V B, Biberach, ca 1941. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Dr Allan Spence, Sevenoaks, England, 2011 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - To Manuscripts & Archives - Typescript of POW log of 85465 Lieut B R Wood.

Date: 14 November 1919

Reference: PAColl-4744

Description: Photograph of a group of people including three soldiers, one of whom is Maori, on the Hinemoa Steps. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1943]

Reference: PA-Group-00352

Description: Mounted photographs of: French colonial troops in an allied parade in Tunis after the campaign in North Africa; the Third Echelon farewell parade in the grounds of Parliament, Wellington; three soldiers sharing a cigarette in the desert with mosquito netting draped round the head to protect against flies; a New Zealand truck on the way to Azizia, Libya in January 1943; a New Zealand signaller helping a linesman from the Free French forces at the top of a telegraph pole; two transport ships berthed at Queen's Wharf, Wellington used to carry the First Echelon to the Middle East; a soldier leading a mule pack through the cactus used to supply front-line troops in the hills of Tunisia; an axis supply ship sunk in the port of Tripoli taken when the New Zealanders entered in January 1943; Maori infantry on the back of a truck entering Tripoli; and the road to San Marino with large white crosses painted on the hillside to mark its boundaries. Two loose prints, one a sketch of and one an actual Victoria Cross. Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-D-0059 and PAColl-D-0168 to PAColl-D-0176, and PAColl-4576 Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PAColl-0460

Description: Photographs of the Pioneer Battalion in Palestine and Gallipoli, and the 11th Battalion at Oakland during the European campaign, 1914-1918 war. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 18 Dec 2007

From: Vietnam War oral history project

By: Bristowe, Te Hukarere Mamaeroa Pereto, 1938-; Diamond, Paul Edward, 1968-

Reference: OHInt-0959-49

Description: Interviewer(s) - Paul Diamond Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001270 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 4.24 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word, Adope PDF; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7442, OHDL-001324. B&W photograph of Sugar Bristowe and another soldier in the field; Colour photograph of Sugar Bristowe at the time of his interview (December 2007) (OHDL-001325) Search dates: 1938 - 2008

Date: 2006-2011

By: Diamond, Paul Edward, 1968-; Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHColl-1030

Description: Ten interviews with Māori who served in the Vietnam War. The interviewees were born between 1935 and 1949, and belong to iwi from rohe across Aotearoa/New Zealand. Includes interviews with Paul Kimiora Carr, Roy Tutewhakaiho Matakatia Komene, Roger Carew Aritaku Maaka, John Edwin Heremaia Marsh, William (George) Mathew, Anthony (Andy) Leon Mokaraka, Albert Sidney (Sid) Puia, Rangi Mathew Rata, James (Jim) Taia, and Charles Romi (Bunny) Tumai. Includes printed biographical forms, printed abstracts, printed pre-interview questionnaires, digital recordings, photographs, and other documentation. Awards/funding - Funded by an Award in Oral History from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2006. Between June 1964 and December 1972 around 3,500 New Zealand military personnel served in South Vietnam. All of the New Zealanders who served were regulars or had enlisted in the Regular Force to join V Force - New Zealand's army contingent in the US-led coalition. Māori participation in the war was substantial. The interviewees served with many of the New Zealand units deployed in Vietnam; some served with Australian units. Quantity: 10 digital sound recording(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 1 folder(s). 10 interview(s). 44 Electronic document(s). 203 digital photograph(s). 25 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 37 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Paul Diamond, Lower Hutt, November 2011 Search dates: 1964 - 1900 - 1972 - 2011

Date: 6 Nov 2000 - 06 Nov 2000

From: Wartime nurses project

By: Parata, Margaret Isabel, 1915-2010

Reference: OHInt-0731/03

Description: Margaret Isabel Parata born Taieri 1915. Recalls attending Archfield boarding school, training as a nurse at Dunedin Hospital and travelling through Canada and America to England. Backgrounds becoming an army nurse, and describes months spent at 1st New Zealand General Hospital in England (Pinewood, near Cawthorne). Talks about the Maori Battalion and comments on `these young bashful boys' also mentions their singing and other customs of gathering local thistles from the English fields. Recalls further duty in Egypt, travelling on the `Georgic' and working in a tent hospital at Helmieh which she describes. Was sent back to Crete and describes conditions of journey. Refers to Peter McIntyre's drawing of Crete where the parachutists landed. Back to Egypt again and nursed at Helwan until the end of the war, travelling home on the 'Oranje'. Describes hospital which was a converted Edwardian hotel. Talks about pneumonia patients, lack of drugs and M & B medication. Recalls marriage to husband, Hone, being married by Jack Sommerville. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Anna Rogers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012495 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4304, OHDL-000837.

Date: 21 April 1993

From: Hiruharama Oral History Project

By: Abraham, Herbert George, 1916-2002

Reference: OHInt-0099-15

Description: Herbert Abraham explains the Lebanese origins of his fathers surname, Facoorey, why the family moved to Te Araroa and describes his education at Te Araroa primary and Gisborne Boys High School. Details the family store at Te Araroa, relationship with Henderson family, friends in Te Araroa, employment after he left school scrub cutting at Horoera, milking cows and then at the Gisborne Freezing works, and talks about his father leaving and going to Melbourne. Describes in detail his experiences in the Maori Battalion during WWII. Includes discussion of enlisting as Maori even though he is not Maori, training at Papakura camp, farewells, men he was in the Battalion with, men who commanded the C Company and the D Company, officers, bayonet charges, haka, medals, the campaigns he was involved in, promotions through 5th reinforcements, C and DC Company and to HQ, selling of army equipment, rations, rustling food, clothing, being in the rations truck and in charge of food, the men who got killed and how he coped with the memories after the war by mainly blocking them out. Also talks about the campaign in Italy, relationship with Italians and coming home after the war. Comments on the differences between WWI and WWII for the Maori who fought and the number of men who went to WWII from Te Araroa. Mentions that he was selected for the East Coast Maori rugby team but was not able to play because he wasn't Maori. Talks about coming home to Te Araroa, working at the family store and then in the taxi business, his marriage to Dawn Smith and daughter. Venue - Gisborne Interviewer(s) - Monty Soutar Venue - Gisborne Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005819a, OHC-005820 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1223b. Search dates: 1993

Date: [ca 1863-1864], [ca 1880s-1920s], [ca 1939-1949], [ca 1986-1990]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: PAColl-6056-06

Description: Collection of photographic prints and postcards primarily showing Māori people from circa 1863 to 1929. Also a small number of prints from circa 1939 to 1949, and circa 1986 to 1990. Incudes one cigarette card and three photographs of Jock McEwen, one shows him signing his book 'Rangitane'. Some subjects are named. Title supplied by Library. A full length portrait of Hoani Te Whatahoro Jury is available at Library reference 1/2-024827-F. Another portrait of Numia Keruru is available at PAColl-7273-07. Quantity: 14 b&w copy photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 colour copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1941

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-172

Description: A message of welcome composed and translated by Henry Stowell, to the following Māori returning soldiers: H Eria, P W Kohere, J Larkins, Hii Mano, Piripi Mare, Potene Mauheni, H Rangihika, and W A Kenny. In Māori and English. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - By special request, composed and translated by Hare Hongi Stowell, Wellington Sep 2 1941 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Needed conservation flattening. Currently with conservation staff.

Date: 1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Publications Branch : Photographs of North African and Italian campaigns in World War II

By: Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010

Reference: PAColl-D-0169

Description: Mounted photograph of the first New Zealand troops to enter Tripoli. Shows a truck load of 28 New Zealand (Maori) Battalion on the final stage of their advance into Tripolitania on 8 Feb 1943. Photograph taken by H Paton. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - DA2866; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 300 x 370 mm mounted on card

Date: ca 1880-1920

By: Burrell, Frederick William Trehair, 1871-1946; Armstrong, Charles Clark, -1946

Reference: PAColl-6622

Description: Copy negatives of studio portraits of groups of children, weddings, a female Salvation army member, and two of men in uniform. Most of the negatives have the surnames on them which are: Taylor, MacKenzie (others in the original image have been blacked out in this copy), Bloomfield (an enlargement of a detail of a bigger image of more Salvation Army members), August, Henry, Cassey, Aitchison, Dixon, Livingstone, Leith, McConnell, and Cowie. Two of the photographers were Burrell and Armstrong but there may be others. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018567 to 018581 Quantity: 15 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negatives