Purchase, Keith, active 1917

Date: 1917-1918

From: Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973: Negatives relating the Walsh Brothers' Flying School and farm life at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke

Reference: PAColl-10055

Description: Note: These photocopies were made by the Library from prints and an album lent by the donor. The prints were identified on the backs and in captions, and enabled the archivist to describe the negatives in the collection. Includes a copy of the Berntsen family tree provided by the donor and the negative sleeve book that originally held the negatives in this collection. The first fourteen images relate to members of the Berntsen and Mollgaard families on the farm owned by Niels Johan Berntsen at Waipatiki out towards the coast from Dannevirke. Most of the people are identified and include - Niels Berntsen's children; Joe (Johannes Berntsen), Andy (Andreas Ries Berntsen), Kitty (Johanne Katherine Berntsen), Dina (Kirstine Marie Berntsen). George Peter Berntsen's children; Harold Johannes Berntsen, Elizabeth Berntsen. The Uncle Peter Berntsen in this collection is probably George Peter Berntsen, brother of Niels Johan Berntsen. The Mollgaards were family friends. Mollgaards included in this collection are - Elvina (Sister) Mollgaard, Rudolph Mollgaard, Hans Mollgaard, and Mr Mollgaard. There is also Uncle Ole Olsen, and a young woman called Marie. The rest of the images are a record of Anton Berntsen's time as a pupil of the Walsh brothers' New Zealand Flying School at Kohimarama, Auckland, which he attended in 1917-1918. Many of the students are identified as well as the three instructors, George Bolt, Bob Going, and Marmaduke Matthews. There are photographs of one of the two B&W Boeing seaplanes purchased in 1916, flying boats designed by the Walsh brothers and built at the school, the Curtis and Hall Scott engines bought in to power the aircraft, and views of everyday life at the school at work, play, and rest. The grandparents and fathers of the Berntsen children in this collection left Denmark in 1872 with 15 other Danish families, and joined the emmigrant ship `Ballarat' in England. The ship berthed at Napier, New Zealand, on the 15th of September 1872. The names of the Berntsen parents who emmigrated with their family were Anton and Bodil Katrine (nee Neilson) Berntsen. The children and young men and women in the first part of this collection are the children of their eldest child and son, Niels Johan Berntsen, and of their youngest child and son, Peter George Berntsen. Quantity: 62 photocopy/ies. 1 photocopy/ies of an album. 1 empty negative sleeve book.

Date: 1917-1918

From: Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973: Negatives relating the Walsh Brothers' Flying School and farm life at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke

Reference: 1/4-123894-F

Description: Anton Berntsen and roomate, Keith Purchase at the New Zealand Flying School, Kohimarama, Auckland, where they were student pilots. In the background is one of the sleeping huts. Photograph taken by Anton Berntsen between 1917-1918. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 8.8cm x 6cm

Date: 1917-1918

From: Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973: Negatives relating the Walsh Brothers' Flying School and farm life at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke

Reference: 1/4-123889-F

Description: Instuctor and students of the New Zealand Flying School, Kohimarama, Auckland, grouped in front of a Walsh flying boat. Photograph taken by Anton Berntsen between 1917-1918. They are (from left) - Henry Heard. Tom Reid. Bill Exler. Kelly Smith. Math (Marmaduke) Mathews (instructor seated on plane). ?.... Marriner. Keith Purchase. Ken Fraser. Anton Berntsen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 8.8cm x 6cm

Date: 1917-1918

From: Berntsen, Anton, 1898-1973: Negatives relating the Walsh Brothers' Flying School and farm life at Waipatiki, near Dannevirke

Reference: 1/4-123900-F

Description: Portrait of Keith Purchase, student pilot at the New Zealand Flying School, Kohimarama, Auckland. Photograph taken by Anton Berntsen between 1917-1918. Keith Purchase was Anton Berntsen's roomate at the New Zealand Flying School. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 8.8cm x 6cm