War memorials - Egypt

Date: 1940-1946

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-4161-01-077

Description: Some photographs include captions. Series of photographs of memorial erected by residents of Maadi to members of 2nd NZEF who trained at Maadi Camp 1940-1946. Part of the inscription in Egyptian. Miscellaneous photographs taken at Maadi: Machine gunners at night; church parade; painting by Signalman S Moffitt (16212) of hills on southern side of Camp Maadi; cricket team; group of swimmers Photograph of New Zealanders leading the field at an Imperial sports meeting in Egypt, 1941 Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

By: Wood, W J (Private), active 1945

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-089

Description: All photographs were taken by Pte W J Wood and include captions (multiple copies of most). Include: Group of officers and nurses taken after the ceremony with Lt Gen Freyberg; Freyberg reading his message to the troops; padres J B Dawson, C C Palmer, M A Bennett & F H Walsh; senior officers with Freyberg - Brigadier L W Thornton, Brigadier S H Crump, Brigadier W G Gentry, & Major C K Reed; Freyberg placing a wreath to honour the fallen; Guard of Honour; The Last Post; Padre J B Dawson reading the dedication; Brigadier Parkinson placing a wreath; volley being fired; Freyberg chatting with Lt Gen G W Allfrey; senior army, navy & air force personnel; debris of wrecked vechicles in desert; 48 veterans of Italian campaign who formed a Guard of Honour Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941? to 1943

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-314

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by Corporal Stuart McLean when with the 2NZEF in the Middle East, 1941 to 1942. Photographs mostly of street scenes, monuments, and historic sites in Egypt, Libya and Israel. A few photographs show scenes associated with World War II, including group portraits of soldiers in Stuart McLean's company, war damage in Tripoli which fell to the 8th Army, 23rd January 1943, and war cemeteries in Jerusalem, Bagush and Takrouna. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue leather cover, coloured illustration in the centre, with an Egyptian scene including pyramids, palms and a camel; 21 x 28 cm

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: [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: [ca 1941-1943]

By: Vernon, James Alfred D'Arcy, 1922-2007

Reference: PA1-o-1522

Description: Photographs of Egypt, Palestine and Italy, taken and collected ca 1941-1943 by Sergeant James Vernon, while acting as personal driver to General Freyberg. Includes a photocopy of a Christmas card from General Freyberg. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 190 x 230 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1940

From: Parker, Raymond Walter :World War Two photograph albums compiled by R W Parker

Reference: PA1-o-980

Description: Record of a soldier's journey on the SS Dunera from Wellington to Suez via Freemantle and Colombo. In Egypt they were based first at Maadi Camp, Cairo. Most of the album shows soldiers and friends during leave breaks in Cairo, and Alexandria. There were trips to the pyramids, public gardens, mosques and Cairo Anglican Cathedral. At times throughout the album there are glimpses of the life of ordinary Egyptians. A man ploughing, a policeman, shop keepers in crowded Cairo streets, gyassas plying their trade on the Nile river, and a horse drawn hearse like a state coach. Soldiers are also shown wearing Egyptian dress and with Egyptian friends often identified as wogs or gypos There are views of the convoy that accompanied the troopship to Suez and photographs of other troopships and British warships on the high seas and in Colombo Harbour Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1946

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-03330-F

Description: This pylon records the fact that between 1940 and 1946 76,000 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained in Maadi Camp and expresses the gratitude of the Force for the kindness and hospitality received during these years from the residents of Maadi. Taken in 1946 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1941

From: Vernon, James Alfred D'Arcy, 1922-2007 :Photographs of Egypt, Palestine and Italy, WW2

Reference: PA1-o-1522-17

Description: From left to right, shows Jim Vernon, Postmaster General Phil Cryer, and Captain Schulzer, at the Australia and New Zealand World War I memorial at Port Said, Egypt in 1941. Photograph taken, or collected by, James Vernon. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 13.5 x 8.5 cm

Date: 1946

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-03331-F

Description: Plaque on commemorative pylon 'records the fact that between 1940 and 1946 76,000 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained in Maadi Camp, and expresses the gratitude of the Force for the kindness and hospitality received during these years from the residents of Maadi.' Taken in 1946 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: August 1939

By: Barnett, Naomi, active 2010

Reference: PADL-000569

Description: Nissan and Ester Reizer pose with their children, Leah and Jack, in front of the ANZAC memorial at Port Said, Egypt, early August 1939. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - Typescript biographical and provenance information in Photographic Archive backfile Quantity: 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s).

Date: 1946

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-03332-F

Description: This pylon records the fact that between 1940 and 1946 76,000 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained in Maadi Camp, and expresses the gratitude of the Force for the kindness and hospitality received during these years from the residents of Maadi. Taken in 1946 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1946

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-03333-F

Description: General view of the commemorative pylon, the plaque on which reads 'This pylon records the fact that between 1940 and 1946 76,000 members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained in Maadi Camp, and expresses the gratitude of the Force for the kindness and hospitality received during these years from the residents of Maadi. Taken in 1946 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative