Vella Lavella Island

Date: [1944]

From: Wright, Alfred Charles Seymour, 1916?-1998 : Journal

Reference: MSX-5967

Description: Journal kept by Wright while on active service in the Solomon Islands in World War Two; includes notes on maps, soil, geography, weather and rainfall, geology, Pidgin English, botany and war matters; Wright has indexed the journal, has drawn several maps, land profiles and rain gauges Wright has recorded a brief history of the Solomon Islands and New Britain; he has described the occupation of Vella Lavella and included a newspaper clipping about the island; and from the `Pacific Islands monthly' (Jan 1944), has recorded the Japanese entry to Guadalcanal Maps in the journal are for Necal, Guadalcanal, Florida Island, New Georgia Group, Treasury Group, Balbi or Bougainville Island and Buka Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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: Barns-Graham, Allan Barclay, 1906-2006

Reference: PA1-q-303

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Amongst the official NZ photographs there are a few from the official British war photographs. Signals personnel train at the New Zealand School of Signals in New Caledonia; New Zealanders construct roads on Vella Lavella; the Post office at Vella Lavella; the boot repair section; arrival of Xmas mail in New Caledonia. Works services engaged in construction of the NZ General Hospital No 4; hospital wards; wounded and sick soldiers with nursing staff; and convalescents; Xmas dinner at the Artillery Training Dept; New Year function at the No 4 General Hospital (Boguen Detachment); an ice cream plant amenity provided by the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board. Field maintenance camp in the Solomons. Various sporting activities at a number of sites in the Pacific including boxing championships, race meetings, aquatic sports carnival on Vella Lavella including a Xmas-New Year treasure hunt; native canoes; cricket; rugby games and team portraits; New Year sports meetings; road race; swimming carnival and basketball. Group portraits of officers and staff at the New Zealand Base Reception Depot; the Base Ordnance Dept.; Wharf operating Unit; WAAC personnel at the NZ Convalescent Depot; presentation of awards by H E Barrowclough. Embarkation of NZ troops for a commando raid on Green Islands (known as the Green Island Campaign and as the Nissan Campaign); troops boarding a destroyer by means of nets on the side; soldiers wounded in the raid; men camouflaged with blackened faces; LSTs (Tank Landing Ships); unloading heavy vehicles and equipment form LSTs; fresh water being brought ashore from an LST; LCI (Landing Craft for Infantry) amphibious ships. Parade of various NZ troops welcoming "Fighting French" volunteers home from North Africa; a NZ casualty clearing station at Guadalcanal. Activities of NZ troops at Nissan Island; capture of Japanese antitank guns, army radio sets and medical equipment; group portraits of various personnel on Nissan Island. Dr W W Hallright with assistants giving medical treatment to Nissan Island natives prior to their being evacuated to Guadalcanal, and also giving medical treatment for Pinipel natives. Scenes on Treasury Island include native islanders thatching a roof for a new church at Falamai built by NZ soldiers in memory of NZ and American soldiers, and presented to the nation to replace their church which had been destroyed by fire in the Treasury Islands campaignl; the cemetery at Falamai; a church service at the open air "St James' Theatre"; yacht races; a barbershop. On Nissan Island the No 2 Platoon of a Field Co. engineers constructing Halas Pier and Salipal Pier; a sawmill operated by Field Park Sawmill section; Field Ambulance laboratory; malarial control unit; group portraits of various sections; wood chopping competitions. In New Caledonia there are many scenes of the Kalavere Hospital and the 2nd NZ Convalescent Depot; the opening of the new Kiwi Club built by NZ work services personnel who built it from prefabricated sections made in NZ, with representatives from the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board attending; a dance at the club; dance band; and the Moindah Racing Club meeting. On Mono Island a naval control tower; and Saveke Bridge built by NZ engineers. On Stirling Island scenes of an antitank battery; army and navy personnel meet on Treasury Island; Anzac Day parade in Bourail Camp (New Caeldonia); scenes of members of the Fijian Defence Force with New Zealanders in Bouganville; a native church at the Allied Cemetery in Guadalcanal. Views of the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Pacific showing crew members; the boiler room; engine room; gun crew practice; and depth charge drill. Black and white reproductions of 5 paintings by 3rd NZ Division war artist Lt Allan Barns-Graham: The town of Bourail; a bridge designed and built by NZ engineers designed to carry the heaviest loads; a sketch of a fox-hole near Island Command on Vella Lavella; caped men returning from an engagement on Nissan Island; and the landing at Pokonian Plantation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

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

Reference: PA1-q-302

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Many scenes show NZers in training exercises in New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, including Bren carriers crossing rivers on raft & trestles erected by military engineers; signals; road construction; thatching and constructing buildings (the Works Construction Unit); amphibious training from invasion barges; unloading and landing supplies; transporting guns and equipment; bridge building; digging fox holes and camping in the jungle; jungle warfare; maintaining wireless communication; organising camouflage; repairing damaged weapons; use of local canoes for transportation; ordnance workshops; and weapon training. Many scenes show parades, and inspections, including the King's Birthday parade in New Caledonia; a church parade; the Hon Mr F Jones visiting NZ troops; visit of Hon W Perry; visit of General Freyberg; visit of Admiral Halsey (US); and visit of the Governor of New Caledonia. Sporting activities, including individual players and group portraits of various teams of rugby players, soccer teams, hockey teams, swimming teams and a carnival, boat races, athletics, jockeys and horse racing, wrestling and boxing; surf clubs including the Engineers' team, Infantry No 2 team, and the Signals' team. Daily scenes including food preparation and coking; an anti-mosquito campaign; a leave centre for pacific troops; a dance sponsored by the American Red Crosss Service Club, and a celebration of New Zealand Day at the club; casting votes for NZ elections and a visit of scrutineers overseeing the voting; NZEF Base Repertory Players and the Kiwi Concert Party; a Base Camp reception at the hospital in New Caledonia; a garden party held by the Officers' School; Xmas parcels for NZ troops in the advanced Pacific Base. Images linked with medical care in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Treasury Islands include hospitals; medical personnel including dental surgeons, opticians and nurses; convalescent depot; and evacuation and transportation of the sick and wounded; and scenes of funeral services and graves of NZ soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Transportation of equipment and troops loading and embarking for the north from New Caledonia; landing craft; Liberty ships; New Zealanders in Guadalcanal. The NZ Brigade arriving in Guadalcanal, and the move from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella on board L.S.Ts (Landing ship, tank); climbing up nets on the side of transports; bulldozer drawing heavy vehicles and equipment from the L.S.T.; New Zealand soldiers with Fijian commandoes; use of outrigger canoes; capture of a Japanese armed coastal barge, a Japanese supply boat and camp equipment left by retreating Japanese. Treasury Islands campaign in which a small group of NZ worked with native guides; two native chiefs who were extremely helpful; a NZ camp at Malsi on Mono Island; Falamai Village; water collection at Saveke River on Mono Island; tree cutting to provide wood for pump bases and flooring; unloading drums of petrol; NZ troops consolidate on Treasury Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1941-1945

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: PAColl-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940-1945

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: Barns-Graham, Allan Barclay, 1906-2006

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-201

Description: Large number of captioned photos of Barns-Graham's war paintings done in Pacific. Amongst the paintings are portraits, etc of Major J J G Britland; Capt T Edgerly, Pte E V Owen, Lt G Booth, Pte P C Brian; Lt Col C Seaward; Brigadier L G Goss; Brigadier Row; Brigadier C S J Duff; Brigadier L Potter; Brigadier W W Dove; Pte K E Caldow; Pte F Dixon; Pte G A Dennis; Cpl P A Davidson; Major A Bullen; Cpt S S Smythe & Cpl A R Dobson; Pte G Gerard, S/Sgt L F Fowler, Pte H W Hilford, Gunner J C G Overend; Lt R W Lowry; Pte J W Shaw; Brig J M Twhigg; A C H Osborne; Capt A A Coles; Lt Charles Safely. Scenes painted at New Caledonia, Nissan Island (Green), Vella Lavella, Guadalcanal. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 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

Reference: WH-0207-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. Troops of 3 (NZ) Division in Vella Lavella. Armed Japanese coastal barge captured by men of South Island battalion [during World War 2]." Official war photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 99 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-116

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include several of dress rehearsal for Pacific landing showing NZ forces training for amphibious operations. Filling bags with clay on Vella Lavella (Sgt F R Palliser-Smith, Driver W Tippins, Driver L Marshall), 1943; NZ soldiers on their bunks aboard a troop transport (Driver L Wilson, Driver D E Klenere, Pte W J Doherty, Pte D Hodgkinson); NZ Brigade arriving at Guadalcanal; US marines unloading supplies at Guadalcanal; US planes bombing Buka airfield, Nov 1943; US Navy medical officer studying blood specimen from a malaria patient on Guadalcanal; NZ troops playing Chinese Checkers while relaxing during an exercise on a transport ship; L/Cpl W Brown, Spr E S Smith filling cans during Treasury Islands campaign. Getting ashore at Mele Beach (New Hebrides); Col M A Edson & Col W J Whaling, commander and executive officer of 5th US Marines; group photo of 8th Bde HQ staff, Treasury Islands (staff named on back); church, outdoor thetare and yachts at Falamai, Mono Island; Lautoka Express (CSR Free train); Fijian family group; line-up of Japanese captives at Guadalcanal; approaching Treasury Islands. Disembarking and unloading at Guadalcanal; loading tanks at Kukum Beach; 14th Bde landing at Guadalcanal; 36th Bn camp at Stirling Island; unloading at Mono Island; crossing Lunga River during manoeuvres; jungle exercise; troops at Guadalcanal before sailing for Vella Lavella; building church at Falamai; gunners pulling a gun ashore at Efate, 1943; 3rd Div training exercises at Mele Beach; men of 36 NZ Bn on USS `President Jackson'; wounded Fijian soldier carried through jungle for medical attention on Bougainville; NZ officers of 1st Battalion of Fiji Infantry examining a Japanese Zero plane shot down on Vila airstrip during attack on Kolombangara Island, Oct 1943. Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall inspecting NZ troops on Treasury Islands; line-up of tanks prior to inspection by G-G; aerial view of Stirling Island. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1940s]

By: Gillespie, Oliver Arthur, 1895-1960

Reference: PAColl-9234

Description: Photographs; mainly taken in Japan, Fiji and Solomon Islands during World War II. Comprises: Two taken in Otake, Japan. Two taken in Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. Three taken in Fiji. One taken at an unidentified location in the Pacific. One of a military camp at an unidentified location. Also includes two photographs showing three unidentified persons (one is possibly Oliver Arthur Gillespie). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0593 : Gillespie, Oliver Arthur, 1895-1960 : Papers - Transfer information - From Manuscripts and Archives : MS-Papers-0593 : Gillespie, Oliver Arthur, 1895-1960 : Papers.

Date: [ca 2011]

Reference: OHColl-1524

Description: Video recordings of a trip to Vella Lavella by Robert McCaw, Peter Sugden and Paul Sugden. The video records their visits to World War Two sites where Peter Sugden's father had fought for the 37th Battalion, 1943-1944. Includes an edited account of the trip, and five complete interviews with Vella Lavella Elders. Those interviewed were Donal Keke, Josiah, Kakombuma, Minajama and Peter Poka. Title transcribed from items. Quantity: 5 Interview(s). 2 digital video disc(s). Search dates: 2011

Date: [1939-1945]

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: PAColl-4161-01-041

Description: Mainly photographs of coastal defence and operations during World War II in the Pacific Islands and Auckland Islands. Some photographs are identified with captions and information on the back. Some people are identified. Includes coast watching on Auckland Islands - No 1 Camp Port Ross (The Cape Expedition) - wireless operations, surveying and meteorologists; Pacific Island - coast watchers cave on Vella Lavella Island used by signalmen (Signal Corps, US Army); radio and radar operations; women naval personnel; RNZN camp at Banika (Russell Islands); RNZN base camp at Guadalcanal (Camp Adams); group photos including crew of MW3 at Lombari; telegram relating to American soldiers washed ashore, 15-16 June 1942; albatross on Auckland Islands; coast watching quarters under construction at Cape Campbell; etc. Photographs taken at Nukufetau (Tuvalu), Guadalcanal, Bonika, Anchorage Island, Manu Island, Lombari, Bougainville, Banika (Russell islands), Cape Esperance, Vella Lavella Island, Auckland Islands, Cape Campbell, Funafuti, Visu Visu Camp, Savo (Solomon Islands), Suwarrow. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1521

Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).

Date: 1940, 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-105

Description: Most photographs are captioned. Includes views of Tontouta River; Bourail Beach; malarial control unit at work in 37 Field Park Company camp; second wave of NZers landing at Vela Lavella; stores and equipment loaded at Juno River, Vella Lavella; Sir Cyril Newall with Brigadier R A Row on inspection tour in the Treasury Islands group; anti-tank battery at Maravari, Vella Lavella; muddy conditions in Tangalan Plantation area, Nissan; Higgins boats with NZers heading for shore at vella Lavella; landing at beach (Pokonian Pln); bridge under construction in Solomon Islands; Div tank squadron embarking at Kukum, Guadalcanal;26 Field Coy NZE forming a road between Roman Catholic Mission and Tanaheran, Nissan; 14 Brigade Group, 3 NZ Division landing at Point Cruz, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; review of 8 NZ Infantry Brigade at Dubois Memorial Field, Boulopari, New Caldeonia, 9 Jul 1943; The Bourail Club; 8 Brigade Group landing exercise, New Hebrides; 36 Battalion, 8 Brigade Group landing exercise at Mele Beach, Efate, New Hebrides group; men of 29 NZ Infantry Brigade crossing the Tontouta River; Lt Col J Brooke-White, Hq 3 NZ Div Engineers in a jeep; boarding an LCVP at Noumea; ready to leave Stirling Island for return to New Caledonia; 12 Field battery shelling Umono Island; unidentified group of NZ soldiers; road to Poya; unidentified group on board a naval ship; carrier platoon of 35 NZ Battalion crossing Timala Bay in a native canoe; unloading the SS Ethan Hitchcock at Nepoui; harbour at Nepoui; Mount Dent de St Vincent from Peyrolles Ridge; 8 Brigade group on `Rangatira' on 28 Oct 1940 leaving for Fiji; officers mess at Tereru (includes Capt Williams, 2nd Lt Holmes, Major Tripp, 2nd Lt Taylor). Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s) (mounted).

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-117

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include: Maravari cemetery, Vella Lavella; cemetery at Falamai, Mono Island; NZ cemetery at native village of Bangarangara; NZEP IP Vella Lavella campaign burial service in jungle; Allied Cemetery, Nissan Island (Green Island); Allied Cemetery, Guadalcanal; NZ cemetery near northern end of Vella Lavella; United Nations Cemetery, Treasury Islands; cemetery on Nissan Island showing graves of American marines. Honoring American dead on Guadalcanal - Solomon Islanders and members of allied military forces stand at attention during ceremonies at which a memorial chapel, built by 4,000 islanders to honor the 1,600 American dead buried on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, was presented to the US people. The chapel is made entirely of thatch and wood with decorative panels on the exterior. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 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

Reference: WH-0194-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Troops of 3 (NZ) Division in Vella Lavella [during World War 2]. Artillery pieces await loading on landing craft, as elements of the force prepare to move to attack the Japanese in another part of the island." Official war photograph, taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 94 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1943

By: Thomas, Trevor Lloyd, 1919-1993

Reference: PAColl-6017

Description: All photographs relate to action on Guadalcanal and Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands. Thomas, a motor-trimmer from Christchurch, was called up for military service in Dec 1941 and saw action with C Company, 35 Battalion 2nd NZEF (IP) in the Pacific Campaign. The photographs are part of a larger collection which includes dairies and a pay book. The diaries cover the period 1 Jan- 9 July 1942 (vol 1), 22 Dec-31 Dec 1942 (vol 2), 1943 (vol 3) and 1 Jan-11 Jun 1944 (vol 4). During this time Thomas was stationed in Fiji and New Caladonia as well as fighting against the Japanese in the Solomon Islands. Also a typed transcript of excerpts from the diaries, 12 Jan 1942-10 Jun 1944 and a soldier's pay book for Thomas, 1941-1945. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940-1945

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: PAColl-4161-01-172

Description: Series of numbered photographs used in `Medical Services in New Zealand and the Pacific' [Historical Publications Branch, Wellington], part of `The Official history of NZ in the Second World War 1939-1945'. Most have no captions, however missing ones have been supplied by printouts from online publication of photographs in above publication [http://www.nzetc.org]. Photographs mainly taken in South Pacific showing medical facilities and staff. Includes one taken of prisoners-of-war at Cosel, Upper Silesia. Include: Samambula `A' Camp near Suva, Dec 1940; Mamaka Camp, Nandi (W Pennington, photographer); photo (missing from backing board) to be returned to J M Thwhigg; group of women and children waving flags (accompanying caption `Dust jacket - The New Zealand people at war'; Camp site 22 NZ Field Ambulance at Tinipp, New Caledonia; surgeons operating at 2 (NZ) CCS, Aug 1943 (Rich, Holstead, Dempsey); NMHS Oranje; Captain W E arry on board Archilles; Captain R P Tuckey and RAP staff; Malarial Control Unit, Treasury Island; officers of 2 NZ CCS, Guadalcanal; Major-General H E Barrowclough visiting 4 NZ General Hospital at Boguen, New Caledonia; 23 Field Company, RAP; etc. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-113

Description: Most photographs contain captions. Include: Embarking at Vella for Green Island; Lance Cpl Brewster & Pte Walker behind their guns at Maquana Bay; L/Cpl Stringer & Pte Fromont behind their guns at Warambari; washing day in Maravari River; checking equipment as it is loaded into landing barges; disembarking at Barakoma; swimming in a creek beside newly constructed bridge; Sgt J Burns (Auckland) repairing weapons; Pte P Waqawai of Fijian Commandos waiting in ambush; Pte A J Bradley (Matamata) & L/Cpl F T Thrupp (Hamilton) playing cards in the jungle; group photo taken at camp commandant's farewell; group photo of Provost Section. Gunner R S Pike & Gunner R S Airey of 35th Bty, 17th Field Rgt, loading flour at Guadalcanal; group photo of Transport Section, 14 Bde; Japanese bivouac; 35th Bn evacuating wounded at Pakoi Bay; No 2 Pl 14 MMG at Maquana Bay, Oct 1943; 14 Bde at HQ; 5 K Section Sigs group photo; 37th Bn working party unloading stores at Boro village; engineers working at Maravau; Lt F Sweeney, Pte N L Beazley & Sgt S W Trigg (all from Auckland); NZ Combat patrol lunching in jungle; native canoe commandeered by NZers; Pte G W Wotherspoon placing his voting paper in ballot box on board a troop ship; Major G B Gibbons & Major H F Allan at polling booth; 2nd Lt C D Griffiths (NZ Intelligence Officer from Timaru) working on his situation report: soldiers reading mail; Padre Percy & others. Lt L T McMillan (Dunedin), Lt Col C F Seaward, M C (Auckland), Capt A J Robertson (Piopio); and 2 Lt C D Griffiths (Timaru)at NZ Combat HQ; Japanese jungle camp; group photo of men of an infantry company who have been fighting in the jungle enjoying a meal; group of NZ NCOs with Fijian Commandos; Pte A E Julian cleaning his rifle; Brigade Commander Brigadier L Potter in a native canoe; Major Barrowclough with Col E E Brown, commander of 35th Inf; patrol at Pakoi Bay with native guide; unidentified group photo; loading stores on LCI in Juno Beach, Feb 1944; Governor General with General Barrowclough crossing a newly-constructed bridge buily by NZ engineers. Embarking at Vella Lavella for Green Island (Nissan); Lt Col Seaward with Governor General & Gen Barrowclough; NZers interrogating a Japanese prisoner of war; Higgins boats transporting troops to shore; 35 NZ Bn crossing Timbala Bay in a native canoe; patrol from 35 NZ Infantry Battalion crossing a creek at Pakoi Bay; destroyer which brought main body of NZ personnel to Vella Lavella. Group of Fijian scouts in jungle; American troops disembarking Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [between 1942-1945]

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: WH-0217-F

Description: New Zealand soldiers from 3rd Division reading letters from home at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, during World War II. Shows five men, sitting in a group in the jungle, resting behind the forward lines. Photograph taken between 1942-1945 by an unidentified official photographer. Other - Print from this negative at PA1-q-302 Source of descriptive information - Caption at PA1-q-302 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [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

Reference: WH-0198B-F

Description: Vella Lavella Island. Soldiers of 3 New Zealand Division's 53 Anti-tank Regiment, resting after hauling their heavy guns through the mud of the jungle. Two guns can be seen with mud up to the axils. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 21 September and 9 October 1943. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - I 875 Troops of 3 (NZ) Division in Vella Lavella. Gunners resting after hauling their heavy guns through the mud slush of the jungle. Official war photograph). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 10 x 12 cm

Date: ca 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

Reference: WH-0528-F

Description: Third echelon, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, loading at Juno River, Vella Lavella, during World War 2. Photographer unidentified. Juno River not listed in Times Atlas or in Pacific Atlas Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative