Nile River

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: PA1-q-294

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Greece, Crete, the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album includes a number of official photographs taken for the British official records. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are identified are not listed above. Many views show aspects of military training in the desert, including machine guns, rifles, manoeuvres, Bren guns, range practice, and anti-tank guns. New Zealand Divisional Cavalry. In England military training and preparation includes scenes of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, William Joseph Jordan, watching New Zealand lumberjacks from the New Zealand Forestry Corps in a Gloucester forest felling trees for war purposes. Also related to England are scenes of the Duke of Gloucester inspecting troops, and King George VI at an investiture at Buckingham Palace investing Flight-Sergeant Williams with his Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry in air operations. Long Range Desert patrols and expeditions into enemy territory showing the difficult terrain they had to negotiate. Views of a formation of five American-built Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the RAF Coastal Command carrying out an action patrol near Borkum, Heligoland and the Danish Coast. They are the first released photographs taken while under fire from German anti-aircraft ships, flying only 200 ft above the sea because of the weather (p 15-21). One image shows a wireless operator checking one of H.M. the King's homing pigeons, presented to the RAF to carry messages in case of a forced landing & breakdown of wireless. Arrival of NZ airmen & pilots for duty with the RAF in 1941. Gift of fruit and vegetables presented to NZ troops stationed in Fiji, transported 60 miles by boat from Kandavu, formally accepted by Brigadier Cunningham. (A number of images of Cunningham are dotted throughout the album). Views of the sinking of the Italian raider Ramb I, by HMS Leander in February 1941 (p 33-37). Scenes of a huge field bakery run by Egyptian bakers which can supply 3500 loaves each day. Also the "Waiwera Hotel - the 'ouse on the 'ill" cookhouse in the desert; and other scenes of food preparation. Relaxation organised by the YMCA, and the opening of the Lowry Hut run by the YMCA. Shipboard life on a transport ship, including games, relaxation and officers censoring mail. Floods after heavy rain in the Western Desert along the Mediterranean fringe (p 61-64). The Oranje leaving Amsterdam on her maiden voyage; used as hospital ship for Australian and New Zealand forces. Groups at the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombing and Gunnery School, all of whom are named (p 67-69). Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to the Middle East (p 69-72), his visit to Greece (p 93-105), and inspecting the hospital ship Maunganui (p110-111).) The No. 1 General Hospital in Greece. War damage to New Zealand House in London (p 105-106). Italian prisoners of war in a soccer match "NZ vs Italy" in Egypt (p 79-81); German parachute troops wounded and taken prisoner in Crete; captured swastikas used to hoodwink the enemy into dropping supplies. Fighting and evacuation of Crete. Evacuation of the Greek Royal party by a bodyguard of New Zealand soldiers, with views of a reception given by His Majesty the King of Greece, showing Lieutenant W H Ryan, Princess Marie, lady Palairet, Prince George, Prince Peter, and British military attache Colonel J S Blunt. Group portrait of New Zealanders in Britain training for the Fleet Air Arm (members named). Members of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron of the RAF who have been part of the raids on Germany, particularly on Berlin. (Several group portraits, some of which are named). Several photographs of unidentified men who escaped from Crete in barges. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 398-791 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-109

Description: View of Cairo and the Nile River, with houses beside the river and a sailing boat on the Nile. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, page size 78 x 138 mm

Date: 1939-1940

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: McKenzie, J S (Private), active 1940

Reference: PA1-q-293

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel in New Zealand, England and Egypt, taken 1939-1940 and compiled for official use. Most of the images have good captions, and most of the names noted are listed above. The album includes a number of British Official Photographs. Scenes include New Zealanders in the advance party sailing from Melbourne in December 1939; shipboard scenes of the First Echelon arriving in Egypt; Freyberg welcoming the troops on arrival with Anthony Eden (Secretary of State for the Dominions) and Sir Miles Lampson; the train service between the NZ camp and Cairo; Egyptian workmen helping construct the camp, and women doing the laundry; Divisional Signallers lined up on motor bikes. Battle practice and army life in the desert: anti-tank & anti-aircraft practice; bren guns; vehicle maintenance; blacksmiths; operating the telephone exchange; engineering work; sorting mail; manufacturing field oven; chopping wood for the oven; food preparation; boot mending; camp cinema; various games including cards, bowls, cricket, swimming, boxing; disinfecting plant for killing pests in soldiers' blankets; digging trenches; erecting tents. Opening of the Kiwi Club at Helwan, formed through the efforts of Lady Lampson. Three photographs taken by a sergeant of the Royal Marines, showing action related to the battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate (p 65, 111, 133) New Zealanders resident in England who volunteeered at the outbreak of war are shown training with the Eastern Command; manoevres with the 2nd Echelon in Britain, and the opening of a new club for New Zealanders in Charing Cross Road; Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops in 1940; NZ armourers and wireless operators working for the RAF; information about the longest non-stop reconnaisance flight made in a Vickers Wellington bomber, piloted and crewed by members of the RNZAF Bomber Squadron (5 crew + 1 officer from the Navy to assist in ship identification); and Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops. In Libya scenes show a motor rail car which patrolled the rail to Matruh; "Whare Kiwi" dugout in the Libyan Desert; The first air raid experienced in a small village in the Cairo area. NZ airmen arrive in Canada for training in the Empire Air Trianing Scheme; haka led by Pine Takarangi. Transportation of troops and equipment across inland water, use of collapsible assault boats and building bridges. Western Desert battle; Italian and Libyan prisoners of war; captured tanks and vehicles; view of the Italian defence line; also the surrender of Traghen when the whole population of the Libyan Fort marched out in surrender. Various hospital scenes, both in England and in Egypt, including occupational therapy activities. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

By: Crombie, George, active 1900

Reference: PA4-1207

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene on the Nile, Cairo, taken by [George] Crombie ca 1900. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series; Backing board recto - left of image - Crombie - photo; Recto - beneath image - The Nile Cairo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1914-1918

By: Andrew, R G (Miss), active 1976

Reference: PAColl-0290

Description: Photographs of Cairo, the pyramids and the Nile. Also a portrait of William Robert Robinson. 1/2-068968 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 album(s).

Date: 1914-1915

By: Hackworth, Philip Vernon, 1891-1960; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PA1-q-107

Description: Photograph album containing photographs of Luxor and Samoa during World War I Views in Egypt include ancient sites at Luxor, Karnak and Thebes, and one of water buffalo by the Nile. The second part of the album starts with a view of the harbour at Noumea showing a number of warships in the distance which are named as HMS Australia, HMS Melbourne, HMS Psyche, HMS Philomel, HMS Pyramus, and the French warship Montcalm. Most of the images in the second part relate to the arrival of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Apia, Samoa; the surrender of Samoa by Germany; group portraits of many of the British and New Zealand officers involved in the takeover (most of whom are identified by surname); and scenes of life in Samoa. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Hackworth album Inscriptions: Album page - `In memory of Lieut. P.V. Hackworth, died 1/2/60 at Wellington. This album of photographs was presented to the Samoan Reunion Committee by the Misses Mildred & Ethel Hackworth' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black covers, entitled `New Zealand seaweed'; endpapers decorated with finely detailed pattern in black and gold; 36 x 29 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to the Committee by Misses Mildred and Ethel Hackworth, Wellington, 1960.

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: [ca 1941-1943]

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: PAColl-4161-01-074

Description: A few photographs include captions. A series of images relating to the work undertaken by the NZ Railway Construction Company NZE, including group photographs; series of images of town and country scenes in and around Cairo; soldiers recreation (beach, tennis and library); military weddings (Routledge and Mason weddings); NZ tanks in UN parade through Cairo; infantrymen training; damaged buildings; NZ Forces Club; etc Quantity: 92 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: [1930s?]

From: Creator unknown: Lantern slides, chiefly of trips overseas, plants, and gardens

Reference: PA11-272

Description: Lantern slides of Africa, including identifiable places and scenes in Egypt, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa. The images were taken by unidentified photographers, probably in the 1930s. Some slides have captions written on paper affixed to the glass, that describe the location or subject. Seven of the copy images are from a larger numbered sequence of commercial slides. The images include: - Scenes in African villages and rural locations showing: herding of cattle, use of mortar and pestle, streets with dwellings, building of a hut, weaving, drying of crocodile skin, markets, man holding snakes, and people carrying bowls on their heads. - Members of various African tribes, including the Dinka people of Sudan and the Kikuyu people of Kenya (also known as Agikuyu). - Ruins of the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe. - Colonial buildings, including the Maputo Railway Station (Mozambique). - Coconut and other palms, banana, and baobab trees. - Camels being ridden, pulling wagons with barrels, or resting. - Sisal being produced, including stripping and drying of the fibre. - Scenes in Egypt, including the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Aswan Dam, the Cairo Museum, streets and buildings of Cairo, and wharfs and boats along the Nile. - The Amphitheatre in the Drakensberg Range in South Africa. Arrangement: Set contains slides from box 10 Quantity: 108 b&w lantern slide(s) comprising 100 original b&w images (one with colour tinting), and 8 copy b&w images. Physical Description: Lantern slides

Date: [ca 1941-1942]

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1807

Description: Photograph album featuring tourist images of Egypt taken [collected?] during Agnes Mary Buckley's service as a nurse during World War II, ca 1941-1942. Photographer is unidentified, but some images may have been taken by Buckley herself. Photographs show the Great Sphinx of Giza, both before and after its excavation, and the pyramids, which are seen from a number of angles (including an aerial view and from across the Nile River). Featured Cairo buildings include Saladin Citadel, King Farouk Palace, the Blue Mosque, the interior of Mohammed Ali Mosque, Sultan Hassan Mosque, El-Mahmoudieh Mosque, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, and Cairo Central Railway Station. Other landmarks include Boulac Bridge, English Bridge, Soliman Pacha Square, Ibrahim Pacha Square, Midan Ismailia, and Station Square. Also contains street scenes featuring transportation (trams, donkeys) and Egyptians at work (including fruit sellers, laundryman). One coloured pencil drawing of a village on the Nile River with the Giza pyramids in the background by H Hawkins is also included. check PAColl-10087 for missing prints Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with red card cover

Date: Apr-Dec 1941

By: Thomas, Richard E, active 1941

Reference: MS-Papers-11548

Description: Folder comprises three typescript letters from Thomas who was based in the Middle East, back home to his family and friends in New Zealand. The first two letters describe Thomas' activites when he is on leave. This includes detailed accounts of the local Egyptian people and his sight-seeing trips. Thomas visits Luxor, the Nile, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Jordan, Dead Sea, Nazareth, Tiberias, Galilee, Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Jaffa. He relates sights visited, foods eaten, means of transport taken and people met. The third letter gives accounts of his position and involvement in the war in Libya. Source of title - Supplied by Library Lance Bombardier Richard E Thomas fought with the Artillery Training Regiment in the Middle East during World War Two. Serial Number: 28807 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Estate of Mr B J Lynch, Wellington, Sep 2013

Date: 1958

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-118

Description: A map of the Nile with a range of historic features detailed, including royalty, hunters, agriculture, writing, a temple entrance and animals. A page torn from a School Magazine with part of a story printed on the back Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 238 x 152 mm

Date: [1941-1942?]

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

Reference: PA1-q-286

Description: Official photographs from World War II, very few of which have captions. Scenes show activities associated with training, social life and daily life in the New Zealand camps in Egypt and the Middle East, with a few relating to New Zealand activity in Fiji, and also scenes of bomb damage at New Zealand House in London. Various activities include the demonstration of light observation towers suitable for flat desert country; soldiers sorting mail; making ammunition ready for firing; artillery training; a NZ "tough bus" towing a gun; a rugby match in the Western Desert; soldiers keeping warm around a small fire; bread making; sorting and delivering stores; repairing vehicles; transporting a vehicle on a pontoon; dinghies; sandbags; storage of fuel with camouflage covering; scenes with Prime Minister Peter Fraser on an official visit to Egypt; interior views of the New Zealand Forces Club in Cairo, with one picture of war artist Peter McIntyre painting a mural in the club; the YWCA building erected, furnished and maintained by the National Patriotic Fund Board showing the exterior, the canteen, and a large group of soldiers at a sing-song around a piano Photographs numbered 453-456 (p 118-119) show bomb damage to the exterior and interior of New Zealand House in London, taken by an official photographer (1941?). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1861

From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :[French sketchbook] 1861-1862.

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-358-045

Description: A street scene alongside a wharf, with a minaret visible to the left, pyramids in the distance to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 150 x 220 mm

Date: 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-005

Description: Shows a view of two feluccas drawn up at the near bank of the river. Houseboats are drawn up at the opposite bank, and there are trees at palms beyound them on the far shore. Other Titles - 22 June 1917 Other Titles - Feluccas; Qasr al-Nil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 220 x 161 mm, mounted on album page, 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 1941-1944

By: Judd, Stratford Frederick, 1919-2010

Reference: PA-Group-00632

Description: Photographs illustrating the career of Stratford Frederick Judd with RNZAF during World War II, including training in Canada, and Hullavington (England), and service in North Africa and the Middle East. Photographs include: portraits of servicemen and their aeropanes; military vehicles and military camps; images of burnt-out aeroplanes; scenes of leisure including a rugby game; sight-seeing photographs in Canada, the United Kingdom, and sites across North Africa and the Middle East; photographs of local people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 71 b&w original negative(s). 39 digital print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) strips comprising 4 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, photographic negatives, digital prints with ms annotations Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2008

Date: 1916 to 1918

By: Sandford, Gladys, 1891-1971; Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970

Reference: PA1-o-270

Description: Album of photographs taken in and around Egypt during World War I, probably taken by Gladys Henning, a nurse working at military hospitals in Egypt. Mostly traveller's scenes, very few with people, and none identified, except one view on page 21, with a woman, seated between two soldiers, identified as "Me". (This album is associated with the Long Album 3, in which she is identified as G. Henning) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album, entitled `Camera studies'; 21 x 15 cm

Date: 1886

From: Artist unknown :Illustrations from the Austral Chronicle. 1886.

Reference: A-015-034

Description: Drawing of an Egyptian boatman and an Arab boatman, showing them side by side from the waist up with the boats on the River Nile, men on camels, and pyramids in the far background, all enclosed by an oval frame Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink; Verso - centre - No 10 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card 126 x 156 mm