Women, Italian

Date: 1945

From: Maffey, Eric Wagstaff, 1917-2000 :Photographs relating to Maffey's service in World War Two

Reference: PA1-o-1221

Description: Photographs of Italy taken and collected by Eric Wagstaff Maffey in 1945, during his service in World War Two. Includes postcards and tourist photographs of Passo Pordoi and Milan. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Purple plastic album 16.7 x 12.4 cm, containing 124 photographs

Date: [ca 16 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04848-F

Description: Italian women in one of the villages behind the Italian Front during World War II. Photograph taken circa 16 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1943-1944

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-078

Description: Some photographs include captions. Images of mountain village of Gessopalena, 1943; Roman remains; soldiers from Ashburton at Battery Gala Day held at Arce; Commander of 8th Army, Gen Sir Oliver Leese shaking hands with Gen Freyberg when he visited NZ HQ in Italian Front; town of Ortona, 1944 (photographer, Sgt G F Kaye); at Italian Front, Xmas Eve, 1943 showing difficult roads encountered by transport of 2nd NZ Division; a `jeep train' on the move; NZ Mobile Bath Unit (Shower); NZ Engineers, Mar 1944; carols on Christmas morning played by 4th Armed Brigade Band, Dec 1943; soldiers in the snow (S Fife, J Kirkly, R C Holland, F Carrick & N Burnette); general view of church and ceremonial parade held in Volturno Valley area, Jan 1944; parade of 6th Infantry Brigagde in Volturno Valley and presentation of medals by Gen Freyberg, Jan 1944; bombardment of Cassino. Radio operators; Instruction school (outdoors); unloading NZ patriotic parcels at a supply point on Italian Front; women refugees cooking outdoors at Pitti Palace, Florence; village of Altino, Dec 1944; Riunion Adriatica di Sicurta (building); general views of Italian countryside (unidentified); smoke from bombs which landed on German positions at Guadralgeri, Dec 1943; demolished bridge. On 2 Oct 1943 the New Zealand Division was moved from Egypt to support the 8th Army in Italy. Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(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

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-079

Description: Some photographs have captions, including a few taken by G F Kaye. Ruins of cathedral in Ortona, Jan 1944 (Kaye); basutos unloading ammunition under direction at Italian front, 24 Dec 1944; Capt M H Aitchison and Flight Commander Capt P H Henderson (RAF Light Aerial Reconnaissance) discussing a duty given to them by NZ Artillery, 1944; sound ranging equipment; combined church and ceremonial parade, Volturno Valley, 30 Jan 1944. Four brothers from Port Chalmers - D Clark, R Clark, J Clark and H Clark; soldiers with Italian children; war posters (Churchill); tank crew cooking a meal during battle for Florence (includes F H Lunham, M W Howard, E A Gabites & J C Becker); Major M J Fitchett, Pte W M Cleary, Pte R Hood, Sgt B G Sicley at work in Pathological Lab, NZ General Hospital in Southern Italy, Feb 1944; G S Brown & C F Bunting with souvenir Nazi flag; infantry formation making way to front line, 24 Dec 1944 (Kaye); men of 29 Battery, 6th NZ Field Regiment bathing at Divisional Artillery Rest Area near Trieste; dining room of the NZ Force Club in Florence (previously the Hotel Baglioni); soldiers welcomed at liberated village with glass of wine. Wedding at NZ Gen Hospital of Capt Ronald Arthur Tinker & Sister Elsie Francis Brown, 14 Apr 1945; wedding at 3 NZGH, Bari of Capt H C Vivian & Margaret Graham (NZWAAC); wedding at 3NZGH of Tpr James A Yardley and nurse Margaret M Andrew, 8 Aug 1845. Puvilis Travaini and Capt B M Silk competing in All Italy Golf Championship in Rome; L Brown & Capt F Mitchell, Team Manager (two members of NZ team which gained second place at Inter-Services Athletic Meeting held at Udine); H W Turvey & C Hollis relaxing at Lido, Senigallia; game of `Two-Up'; bomb damage to mountain village of Gessopalena, Dec 1943 (Kaye); close-up of J L Tantrum who was rider at the South-East Italian Motorcycle Championships held Aug 1945 at San Spirito Speedway; Faenza, Jan 1945 (photo by W K Lloyd); smoke from enemy shells at Orsogna, 1944; NZEF enroute to Italy; last resting place of `Teke' mascot of NZ Div Provost (alongside are J Richards & S F Stephens), Dec 1943; members of NZWAAC on staff at NZ Forces Club at Bari; I R W Cunningham reading at NZ Advance Base; and other miscellaneous photos. On 2 Oct 1943 the New Zealand Division was moved from Egypt to support the 8th Army in Italy. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: D Clarke, R Clarke, J Clarke and H Clarke had their names changed to Clark after contact from a family member.

Date: 1915 - 1917

From: [Postcards sent from overseas to Miss Violet Walsh of Petone, mainly during the First World War]

By: A Vivian Mansell Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Walsh-03

Description: Postcard is one of a set of six each showing a smiling head and shoulders portrait illustration of a young woman representing one of the allies - France, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Russia and Red Cross. This young woman wears a hat with a hatband in Italian colours, a red plume in the hatband, and a badge on her lapel. The pencil message on the back is from "Bill", and says: "Apres le Gar seray Bon for us. Comprez x Bill" (Apres la guerre sera bon pour nous. Comprenez; After the war it will be good for us. Understand) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photograph, on postcard 140 x 89 mm. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection -.

Date: [ca 16 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04844-F

Description: An Italian woman doing washing as life goes back to normal after 8th Army moves forward for the peasants in this area occupied by the 2nd NZ Division in World War II. Photograph taken circa 16 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 16 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04852-F

Description: L G Bell (Tauranga) and M D Elias (Wellington) in conversation with an old Italian peasant woman near the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 16 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 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-03304

Description: Officers of the 22nd NZ Battalion and their guests listen to the Battalion Pipe Band at a dance held by the Battalion at a Baron's homestead overlooking the city of Trieste. Photographed by George Kay in May 1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: silver gelatin print

Date: 13 April 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-03286-F

Description: Italian women of the newly liberated town of Massa Lombarda, Italy, holding flags of the Allied Nations which they have ready to paste in various parts of the town. Photograph taken on 13 April 1945 by George Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 1 Jun 1944]

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-06096-F

Description: An Italian woman who has been wounded is taken into the 5th New Zealand Field Advanced Dressing Station outside Vicalvi, Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 1 June 1944 by George Kaye. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file prints. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 10 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04773-F

Description: New Zealanders giving bread to an Italian woman in the Sangro River area, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 10 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca Oct 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-03230-F

Description: Local women and girls fill their containers at the community pump in Bari, Italy, during World War II. In the older portion of Bari most water has to be carried by hand. Photograph taken circa October 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 3 May 1944]

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: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996

Reference: DA-05677-F

Description: The women of Campobasso, Italy, still use the old Roman washing place for their laundry. Photograph taken circa 3 May 1944 by George Robert Bull. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 3 May 1944]

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: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996

Reference: DA-05676-F

Description: An interesting sight to New Zealand front-line personnel on leave at 200 Rest Camp at Campobasso, Italy, are these local women washing clothes in the old Roman washing place. Photograph taken circa 3 May 1944 by George Bull. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca Nov 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04498-F

Description: An informal study of an old Italian peasant woman on one of the farms near the New Zealanders first camp in Italy, during World War II. Taken circa November 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 6 Aug 1944]

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-06520-F

Description: Italian women refugees cooking outside in southern Florence, Italy, during World War II. Caption on file print reads: 'On this stove, over four hundred people do their cooking. They are refugees from various parts of the city, and are among some of those who are living in the Pitti Palace in the southern part of Florence.' Photograph taken circa 6 August 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 10 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04767-F

Description: Italian women refugees from the battle area leading their livestock are a common sight on the roads leading to the front line around the Sangro River in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken on 10 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 13 Apr 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-03285-F

Description: Italian (Partisini?/Partisni?) women, with rifles and captured German stick grenades, talking with New Zealand troops at Massa Lombarda, Italy, after the town fell to New Zealand troops. Shows soldiers A Burton of Wellington and Frank Stewart of Dunedin. Photograph taken circa 13 April 1945 by George Frederick Kaye. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads: "Tough looking Partisini? Partisni? women...." Relationship complexity - print from this neg at PA1-Q-300-3401 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 16 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04846-F

Description: Peasant women at work in their garden just behind the forward area of the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 16 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 10 Dec 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04751-F

Description: An Italian peasant woman watches the vapour trails from Allied aircraft high over the Sangro River Front in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 10 December 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative