World War, 1914-1918 - Battlefields - Belgium

Date: 1916-1917

By: Grant, Elsa Gladys, 1891-1981; Kinsella, Alison, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1211

Description: Album of photographs taken by Percy James William Simmons of the 15th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917. Includes scenes on the troop ship 'Ulimaroa' en route to Plymouth, Sling Camp and surrounding villages, Messines, and London and Edinburgh on leave. Percy Simmons, son of Edgar and Harriet Simmons of Taumarunui, was engaged to Elsa Bass, a teacher. He sent the photographs to her until his death in action in France, on 8 October 1918, aged 29 years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth covered album 14.6 x 18.5 containing 67 photographs Provenance: Elsa Bass was the mother of the donor.

Date: 1920 - 1925

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1919-1930]

By: Thomas Cook Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1920s-01

Description: Pamphlet lists tours to: 1. Malines and Louvain with Tervueren 2. Namur and Dinant via the Meuse and Molignee Valleys 3. Ypres and the British front 4. City of Brussels 5. Waterloo and the Forest of Soignes Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset, on sheet 165 x 280 mm, folded to 165 x 93 mm.

Date: [1914-1918?]

By: O'Neill, C N, active 1917; O'Neill, Josephine, active 1905-1976

Reference: PA1-o-398

Description: Photographs taken by C N O'Neill in the first World War. They were "taken on a little V.P.K. camera hidden under the gun carriage. Photos that not many, if at all anyone would have, as cameras were against the rule"-Photocopied letter from the donor Mrs E J O'Neill, sister-in-law of C N O'Neill. Scenes start with soldiers at a camp in New Zealand learning to shoot; then on to views en route at sea, with members of the submarine gun crew, destroyer escort, and a depth charge in the distance. Scenes in battle zones in Belgium show damage to buildings and to military vehicles, including tanks and an ammunition train; the horse lines; the Nieppe balloon going up and being shot down in flames; the front line at Messines; dug-outs and trenches; prisoners; mud and then snow; an R.A.F. bi-plane; and finally Cologne and the Hohenzollerbrucke over the Rhine. Album includes a photocopy of a typescript list of all the photographs giving, in some cases, more information than is given in the captions. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover; raised image of a woman's head and gold decoration, entitled `Photographs'; 13.5 x 18.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs E G O'Neill, Auckland, 1976

Date: 1914-1915

From: Clachan, John Andrew Martin, 1898-1981: Photograph albums of World War I, chiefly taken by William James Clachan

Reference: PA1-o-095

Description: Photographs taken by W J Clachan, when with the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridges Own), in Belgium during World War I. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black buckram cover entitled "Photographs", 16 x 20 cm

Date: [1917]

Reference: MapColl-234.33hkm/[1917]/Acc.56954

Description: Six annotated copies of map titled "Part of Sheet 28", scale 1:5000; include key with references to "Pillbox or dugout; Machine Guns; Occupied Sheel holes". Annotations in ink, pencil and colour pencil, including numbered locations and arrows. Title supplied by Library. Maps relate to the New Zealand military campaign at Polderhoek Spur and the ruins of Polderhoek Chateau in the period October to December 1917. Quantity: 6 map(s). Physical Description: Manuscript maps, purple carbon copies, with annotations, 20.5 x 33 cm.

Date: [1917]

Reference: MapColl-234.33hkm/[1917]/Acc.56953

Description: Manuscript map of Polderhoek area with key indicating "Starting Point", "Start of Barrage", "1st Objective", "2nd Objective", "Right of Sector", and "Reutelbeek (left)". Annotations in red. Title supplied by Library. Map relates to the New Zealand military campaign at Polderhoek Spur and the ruins of Polderhoek Chateau in the period October to December 1917. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Manuscript blue carbon copy map with annotations in red pencil, 23 x 11 cm.

Date: 1917

Reference: MapColl-234.33hkm/1917/Acc.56955

Description: Two copies of printed "Message Map: No. 23, Part of Sheet 28". Basemap dated 11 September 1917, overprinted in red with note "German Trenches corrected to 29.10.17." Maps show area including Veldhoek, Gheluvelt, and Polderhoek, in Belgium. Title supplied by Library. Maps relate to the New Zealand military campaign at Polderhoek Spur and the ruins of Polderhoek Chateau in the period October to December 1917. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map with annotations, 38.5 x 41 cm.

Date: 1917

From: World War, 1914-1918 :Official Australian Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1547-05-1/238

Description: A captured German pill-box on the Passchendaele battlefield, World War 1914-1918, Belgium. Original caption: "A scene at Garter Point, on the battlefield near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, in Belgium, on October 24th, 1917. This pill-box captured some days earlier by Australian troops, commanded an excellent view over the surrounding country. (Australian Official Photograph)" Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-024

Description: A bearded man helping a German soldier out of a trench on a battlefield, probably in France or Belgium. Skulls litter the landscape behind the pair. The pacifist is half smiling and gesturing towards the soldier suggesting forgiveness Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-039

Description: A bearded man, a label on his chest, helping a German soldier out of a trench on a battlefield, probably in France or Belgium. Skulls litter the landscape behind the pair. The pacifist is half smiling and gesturing towards the soldier suggesting forgiveness Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Over 4 years episodes of the war (and during armistice) by Major General H G Robley. [ca 1920]

Reference: E-024-f-1-039-a

Description: A bearded man, a label on his chest, helping a German soldier out of a trench on a battlefield, probably in France or Belgium. Skulls litter the landscape behind the pair. The pacifist is half smiling and gesturing towards the soldier suggesting forgiveness Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm Transfers: Transfer from MS-Papers-0016, 1970s?.

Date: 1914-1918, 1927

By: Longstaff, William, 1879-1953

Reference: C-057-005

Description: The structure of Menin Gate (Ypres, Belgium) to the left, with the ghosts of soldiers in the foreground The artist Lonstaff was present at the opening of the Menin Gate memorial in 1925, and claimed that, unable to sleep on the night following, he walked in the moonlight and conceived this picture, with its ghostly soldiers. Inscriptions: Plaque inscribed: Presented to the Commonwealth Government of Australia by Lord Woollavington Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium was built to commemorate the soldiers killed there during the First World War. It was opened in 1927 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 243 x 493 mm Provenance: Donation: Mr Hawker, Wellington, 31 Jul 1967

Date: 4 Feb 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013054-G

Description: A New Zealand Artillery officer bends over to read the wooden cross marking a grave in a former German field cemetery that is now a target of German shelling in World War I. Water-filled shell holes can be seen in the background. There is also a broken wooden cross on the ground. Photograph taken at Westhoek Ridge 4 February 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Caption - "A N.Z. Artillery Officer at the one remaining cross left standing in what was once a German Field Cemetery now practically destroyed by his own shelling." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H431 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 18 Oct 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012937-G

Description: New Zealand troops pause to make tea by the Wieltje Road, a place of heavy fighting on the Ypres Salient during World War I. The surrounding landscape has been blasted by heavy shelling. Soldiers stand on mounds of mud. Photograph taken 18 October 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Caption - "A dixie of tea quickly made on the roadside fire in the early hours of the morning." (Album PA1-f-091) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - H292 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: April 2018

By: Ralph, Linda, active 2018

Reference: MSDL-4016

Description: Comprises four digital files created by Linda Ralph relating to Frederick Noel Hamilton Beamish's World War One diaries written between 1916 and 1919. They contain: - a typed transcription made by Ralph of his diaries (169 pages) - a one page biography of Frederick Beamish - one digitised black and white studio portrait of Beamish - Linda Ralph's note describing her transcription methodology. Title supplied by Library. Other material relating to Frederick Noel Hamilton Beamish is held at Library reference MS-Papers-0578. Linda Ralph is the grand-daughter of New Zealander Captain Frederick Noel Hamilton Beamish, who was an officer with the English army unit Manchester Unit, 3rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, during World War I. Quantity: 3 Electronic document(s). 1 digital image(s).

Date: 30 Nov 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012995-G

Description: New Zealand officers watching a bombardment from their dugout near the Western Front during World War I. The area around where they are standing is extensively sandbagged. Photograph taken at Hooge Crater 30 November 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H361 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1919

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-919-021

Description: Shows a view looking along a road that leads to an arched stone gateway at the base of a wall into a ruined fort. A flag, French or Belgian, is flying in the centre background. The fort was destroyed by German troops on 15 August 1915. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on page of sketchbook, 132 x 175 mm.

Date: 1917

From: Norman, P C :Photographs of Hutt Valley, Johnsonville, Titahi Bay, and of France and Belgium during World War I

Reference: PAColl-4580-06

Description: Scene on Menin Road, Ypres sector, Belgium, during World War I. Includes dead horses and a broken cart. Troops are in the distance. Photograph taken in 1917 by an unidentified official photographer of the Australian War Records section. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on back of print. Location formerly described as Menen. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Menin Rd Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.1 x 21 cm

Date: 14 Jun 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013399-G

Description: A shell bursts close to New Zealand soldiers during the Battle of Messines Ridge in World War I. Photograph taken near Bailleul, France 14 June 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Caption - "Battle of Messines Ridge. Shell burst on our front line. Bailleul 14.6.17." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 12 Nov 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 10x8-1789-G

Description: The New Zealand Commander General Russell (wearing a helmet) shown on a visit of inspection to troops in the line at Hooge Crater, World War I. He is walking along a duckboard path. There is a sandbagged dugout on his left. His two companions have been identified as a French liaison officer and Russell's aide (descending the steps) An ambulance is parked at the top right. Photograph taken 12 November 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H363 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches