Soldier and school teacher. Born in Tinwald, Canterbury. Attended Wellington Teachers' Training College until 1942. Enlisted with 2NZEF as Captain in the 23rd Rifle Battalion after serving with the Khandallah Platoon, 1st Wellington Regiment. Served as Lieutenant-Colonel in Crete, where he was cited for Military Cross for his actions at the battle of Maleme. Was a Prisoner of War in Italy and then Oflag XIIB in Germany. After the war was a lecturer at Wellington Teachers' Training College, headmaster at Tonga College 1948-1949, then Inspector of Schools, Waikato/Bay of Plenty. Was photographed speaking to HRH Duke of Gloucester at the New Zealand Base Camp at Maadi, Egypt. Friend of Ian Thomas Galloway 1919-2003.
Watson, Carl Nelham, 1911-1974
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World War II Official album. 1669-2114
Date: 1941 to 1942
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: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995
Reference: PA1-q-297
Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm
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Scrapbook
Date: 1937-1940
From: Galloway, Euan Malcolm, 1947 -: Khandallah Platoon Association Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12284-2
Description: Scrapbook titled "Annals of No 1 Platoon, A Coy, 1st Batt, 1st Wgtn Rgmt, CMO, Khandallah Platoon". Compiled by Ian Thomas Galloway prior to his transfer to the New Zealand Scottish Rifles in December 1940, the item includes lists of platoon members and their service, typescript accounts of the formation of the platoon, newspaper cuttings of their activities and training schedules, circulars and special routine orders, invitations and programmes for Wellington Regimental Ball for 1939, awards and presentations of trophies,119 captioned photographs, the lyrics to a song "Our S.M.", and a personal letter from Captain C N Watson. Also included is a newspaper extract from the 'Dominion' newspaper for 2 November 1937 showing pictures of a training exercise of the 1st Battalion, Wellington Regiment, at Baring Head. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) 79 pages. Physical Description: Manuscript, typescripts, printed matter and original photographs Transfers: Two folded-in panorama photographs have been removed to reference numbers PA6-831 and PA6-832 for preservation purposes.. Processing information: .
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World War II Official album 5
Date: 1942
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: McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922
Reference: PA1-q-289
Description: Official photographs from World War II, many of which have captions giving names, information about activities taking place, and places. Some of the names noted are listed above. The album opens with a number of reproductions of paintings by New Zealand war artist Peter McIntyre (10 paintings (p 1-4)), 1 of McIntyre sketching in the field (p 9), and 7 further paintings (p 16-17, p 91, p 109)). Pages 17-22 have scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand Sir Cyril Newall visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942. Page 24-25 show trainees at the Ninth Army Ski School in Lebanon in 1942, some men chosen from the 28th New Zealand (Maori) Battalion, and some from the 22nd Battalion. Duties included reconnaissance, fighting patrols and rescue work for snow-bound troops. Different occasions are shown including an Anzac day parade and service on 25th April 1942, and a ceremonial parade in Aleppo on 30th April 1942; a group of New zealanders who were at Rouen ready for repatriation when arrangements with german authorities for the mutual repatriation of Prisoners of War broke down, all of whom were returned to Germany; groups of NZ medical personnel who were part of PoW protected personnel which took place between Italy and the Middle East Allie Forces (p 45-46); a group of Australians and New zealanders in the German prison camp Marlag & Milag Nord; a race meeting and sports activities in Transjordan, including races with 6 Arab horses and 6 donkeys which were loaned by the Arab Legion. A group of NZ soldiers visited the stonghold of a tribe of bandits in Syria (p 77-80); scenes in Crete "the price paid by German air invaders"; Winston Churchill being welcomed in the desert; scenes of nurses, convalescents, hospital wards around the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital in Beirut (p 102-106); recipients of recent awards, many not named (p 112-114); a group of NZ airmen who were survivors of a ship which was sunk en route to Britain; Kiwi Concert Party; and a sequence showing the pursuit by a New zealand convoy of the Axis Forces in the Western Desert during the early days of the November advance (p 126-137, showing equipment abandoned by the retreating forces including German special mobile anti-tank guns and trucks, but also the problems with landmines)l. The final views show the advance to Tripoli. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm