Newport News

Date: May 1918 - January 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1394

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918. Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919. Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-994

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers. Left Liverpool 3 February 1918, called at Colon (20-21 February 1918, Panama Canal and Balboa (21 February 1918), Auckland (15-16 March 1918) Wellington (18-28 March 1918), arrived Port Chalmers 29 March 1918. Includes views of Manawatu Gorge, Paekakariki railway line, locks on Panama Canal, Colon, Newport News, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, Auckland Harbour, Dunedin, and ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion), Leviathan, HMCS Niobe and yacht Viking. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1917, [ca 1917]

Reference: PA-Group-01008

Description: Photograph album and accompanying loose prints, of images chiefly relating to World War 1. Images taken 1917 and circa 1917. Photographer(s), and compiler of album, are unidentified. Includes images of: troops and nurses and of naval ships. Also some family pictures. Some images have captions on the backs, in at least two different hands. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: World War 1 album handed into Hataitai Salvation Army Op Shop approximately 2005. Not required by shop so retrieved by donor.

Date: 25 Sep 1919

From: Cade, John Robert, 1879-1962: Photographs

By: White's Studio

Reference: PA6-821

Description: Panoramic group photograph of New Zealand soldiers, including Major Robert Cade [centre back, to left of man standing in covered porch?] of the 2nd Battalion of the Wellington Regiment, outside a YMCA building, Newport News, Virginia, United States, during his return to New Zealand after World War I. The group includes unidentified women and a civilian man holding a large sign reading "To-night: See the Big MOVIE SHOW. 10 reels 7.30". Other partially obscured signs and banners welcome troops home. Taken 25 Sep 1919 by White's Studio. Source of information - Donor identified J R Cade Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "Diggers" at YMCA Hut, Newport News, Va, USA, Sept-25 1919. John Robert Cade arrived back in New Zealand on 26 Oct 1919 (Source: J R Cade's Military Personnel file, held at Archives New Zealand) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin panoramic photoprint

Date: 1916-1917, nd

By: Grey, Elsie Prudentia, 1887-1949

Reference: MS-Papers-5994

Description: Comprises summary of letters and diary and transcription of letters in the form of a diary (to Dec 1916) and diary (Dec 1916-4 Sep 1917); Grey describes her voyage to England, beginning with the ship's arrival at Panama, her arrival in England, her work at No 3 New Zealand Hospital at Codford, at No 1 New Zealand Hospital at Amiens which was moved to Hazebrouck, their evacuation to a monastery at St Omer and part of a sightseeing tour of Scotland, probably before returning to France. The effects of Sling Camp on wounded soldiers is mentioned (p8). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms J Rodgers, Massey University, for Ms Katherine Kerrane, University of Delaware, Jul 1997