Courtney's Post

Date: 1915

From: Price, Susan:Photographs of Gallipoli and New Zealand schools

Reference: PA1-o-666-27

Description: View of sand bagged dugouts, soldiers, and surroundings, Courtenay's Post, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. Photographed by Frederick Llewellyn Price in 1915 Inscriptions: Verso - Courtney's Post Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11 x 6.4 cm

Date: 1915

By: Great Britain. Army. Middle East Force. General Headquarters; Waters, Sydney David, 1883-1965

Reference: C-057-021

Description: Shows the shape of the hills, ridges, slopes and selected buildings and tents around Anzac Cove and Ari Burnu, with features labelled. Geographical features include (from left) :Baby 700, Sniper's Nest, Happy Valley, The Nek, Walker's Ridge, Mule Gully, Russell's Top, Cathedral, Sphinx, Reserve Gully, Courtney's, Plugge's Plateau, MacLagan's Ridge, Ari Burnu, Shrapnel Gully, McCoy's Hill, Hell Spit, Victoria Gully, Shell Green, Chatham's Post. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 227 x 627 mm. Provenance: Donated from the collections of Sydney Waters and his son H D C Waters, by Jenny Waters, Eketahuna, in 2005. Transfers: For other material of the same provenance, see Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1445; PA-Group-00099; and MapColl-Collection-Waters. - Material from the same provenance is housed in the Ephemera Collection, PAColl-8956..

Date: 1915

From: Hampton, W A, fl 1915 :Copy of a photograph album relating to World War I

Reference: 1/2-168818-F

Description: Turkish shells bursting on Courtney's Post, Gallipoli, photographed in 1915 by Sergeant W A Hampton of the Wellington Infantry Battalion. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm

Date: 1915

From: Read, James Cornelius, 1871-1968: Images of the Gallipoli campaign

By: Read, James Cornelius, 1871-1968

Reference: 1/4-058069-F

Description: Courtneys Post, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915, photographed by James Cornelius Read. Original print at PAColl-1655-1-21-2 Courtney's Post was one of the posts (the others were Quinn's and Pope's) at the head of Monash Gully Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 17 May-25 Jun 1915

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2552

Description: Letter book begins 17 May 1915 with a letter from Malone to Major Sandford of Taranaki about fighting conditions for his soldiers and the difficulties of obtaining supplies from the Ordnance Stores. In a letter to Bruce H Morison on 19 May 1915 he relates the advancement as a soldier of Morison's son in Gallipoli. He makes the observation that British Regulars regard Malone's Battalion as the "The White Gurkhas" which is seen by everyone as a great compliment. Further letters to family members, military colleagues and friends in New Zealand. Two letters to Miss Thomas are in French. Also includes organisational details for Courtney's Post with sketches. Last letter in book 25 Jun 1915 written at Quinn's Post. Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca100 pages). Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book) Includes small pencil sketches Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 109 digitised images. Original and carbon pages have been kept and digitised at pages 65, 66, 71, 72, 74, 75, 83 and 84.

Date: 1915

From: Negatives taken by Rev Ernest Northcroft Merrington, all relating to World War 1, chiefly Gallipoli

Reference: 1/2-077932-F

Description: Isolated posts at the head of Monash Gully, Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I. From left: Pope's Post, Quinn's Post and Courtney's Post. Photographed in 1915 by Ernest Northcroft Merrington. Other Titles - Popes, Quinns and Courtney's Posts Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 14 Apr-23 Jul 1915

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2551

Description: Military exercise notes at start of letter book relating to practice manoeuvres in Miramar, Wellington on 23-14 Oct 1914. On 14 Apr 1915 there are notes for a lecture by Malone: "Officers Efficiency and how to obtain it". Page seven lists points for disembarkation of soldiers from transport vessels. Memoranda aboard the transport `Itonus' relating to soldier's performance. From 18 Apr 1915 there are detailed letters home to Ida Malone, and other letters to family members and Army Headquarters. On 24 Apr 1915 there is a 43 points list from a conference of Commanding Officers held aboard the `Lutzow'. Note of remodelling work to be undertaken at Courtney's Post and Quinn's Post. Letters continue through to 23 Jul 1915. Publication - Published as 'No better death: the Great War diaries and letters of William G Malone' : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (100 pages). Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (19 cm, Army correspondence book) Includes small pencil sketches Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 105 digitised images. Pages 27, 38 and 61 are missing. Pages 1 and 43 duplicated. Also pencil sketch on the reverse of page 43. Page 46 also duplicated with extra information.

Date: 1915-1916

By: Vaughan-Jones, E C (Mrs), active 1963

Reference: PA1-o-507

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers during the Gallipoli Campaign, World War I, presented to the Rev F W Vaughan-Jones by "the Anzacs" on board the RMS Athenic, April 25, 1916. Inscriptions: Album page - "To the Rev. F W Vaughan Jones, with the compliments of the "Anzacs" on board the R.M.S. Athenic, April 25, 1916" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown suede cover; 7.0 x 9.5 cm (inserted in phase-box 27.0 x 21.5 cm)

Date: 1914-1915

By: Constance, John Edward, 1894-1915

Reference: MSX-2845

Description: Diary covers the period 20 Aug 1914 to 15 Aug 1915 and provides a detailed day-by-day description of Private Constance's activities. Details joining the Army on 20 Aug 1914, training at Addington and travelling to Wellington for embarkation on 16 Oct 1915. Recorded his vote for the 1914 New Zealand general election. Sailed aboard the `Tahiti' with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion. Comments on shipboard life, sea sickness, rifle exercises, general drills, fatigue duties and tug-of-war competitions between soldiers. Stopovers in Hobart and Albany. General Godfrey and staff tour the transport on 20 Oct 1915 in Albany. Notes sinking of the German Navy light cruiser `SMS Emden' by the Australian light cruiser `HMAS Sydney' in 9 Nov 1915. During stopover on 16 Nov 1915 in Colombo the `Tahiti' takes on board seven prisoners who served aboard the `SMS Emden'. Arrives Aden 25 Nov 1915 then continues onto Suez Canal. Comments on soldiers' disappointment on learning the troops were not continuing onto England but being deployed in Egypt instead. Disembarked 3 Dec 1915 at Alexandria and entrained to Cairo and then Zeitoun Camp. Constance updates daily on military drills, parades, inspections, marches and skirmishing practice in the desert. On leave he visits Cairo and the Pyramids with other soldiers. Marched with the whole of the New Zealand Divisional Brigade through the streets of Cairo. Comments on being paid in shillings and writing letters home. 26 Jan 1915 leaves Zeitoun Camp for the camp at Ismailia. Company relieves troops at El Ferdan to repel a possible Turkish attack on Suez Canal. Comments on number of Turkish prisoners taken on his return to Ismailia, and then back to Zeitoun Camp. On 16 Mar 1915 the troops were inspected by Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, High Commissioner in Egypt. Ten days later Constance notes that his false teeth are broken after chewing tough beef. On Good Friday, 2 Apr 1915 Constance is in Cairo and witnesses the riot in the Ezbekieh Quarter between local Egyptians and Allied troops, comments on the drunks and arrested men. Entrains to Alexandria on 10 Apr 1915 and sails on the transport `Lutzow' with the Canterbury Battalion to the port of Mudros on the Mediterranean island of Lemnos. At anchor in the harbour with daily trips to the island for marching practice, training and leave. 24 Apr 1915 transport heads to the Gallipoli Peninsula lead by the British dreadnought battleship `HMS Queen Elizabeth'. 11.00am on 25 Apr 1915 leaves the `Lutzow' landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula and straight into action. Records fighting up on the firing line. Constance continues to record his daily life of bombardments by the Turkish Army, sniper fire, manning the trenches, and coming off the front line to be relieved and take sleep wherever he could find it. 3 May 1915 writes that the men were being "slaughtered wholesale" and provides a detailed account of the New Zealand soldiers trying to retire from their position in the face of enemy fire. Following weeks settles into a routine of front line activity, fatigue duty at the beach, burying the dead and rest. 19 May 1915 Constance and his section are transported onto the HMS Reindeer and sailed a couple of miles along the coast, they come ashore once more and commence the digging of trenches. Returned to original bivouac on 22 May 1915. Notes the sinking of the `HMS Triumph' on 25 May 1915. 4 Jun 1915 Canterbury Infantry raided from Quinn's Post, next day a sortie against the enemy at German Officers' Trench opposite Courtney's Post. 15 Jun 1915 Constance competes in a bomb throwing competition. Constance's Company travel to Mudros for rest on 15 Jul 1915. Comments on the men being sick "as they had eaten too many luxuries". Returns to Anzac Cove and duty on Walker's Ridge. Involved in the heavy fighting during the first week of Aug 1915. Last entry on 15 Aug 1915 as a party of Constance's Company advances beyond the trench lines to take a fort but are driven back and have to retire. Last page of diary has two quotes from history. Source of title - Provided by Library Relationship complexity - A portrait photograph of Constance has been digitised and is in the Photographic Archive (PAColl-10094) Private Constance left New Zealand with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion in Oct 1914. Trained in Egypt. Fought at Gallipoli, wounded late August 1915, died 2 Sep 1915 in a hospital in Alexandria. Serial Number: 6/1223A. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (9 x 14 cm, fawn case) Provenance: Donor is nephew of Constance Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 114 digitised images

Date: [1915-1916]

By: Stevenson, Audrey, active 1976

Reference: PA1-o-478

Description: Photographs taken during World War I on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They include views of soldiers (including Indian soldiers); the first Turkish prisoner; mules and the Mule Corps; the New Zealand Infantry Brigade HQ, and a signal office in dugouts; bivouacs; equipment landed at Anzac Beach; and one with a sign that reads "Mohammedans Burial Place". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan cover, entitled "The Florentine album"; 19.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: 10 Apr-25 Apr, 29 May-1 Aug 1915

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2546

Description: Diary continues from MSX-2545 with Malone describing arriving at Alexandria awaiting embarkation aboard the `Itonus'. Describes weather and soldier's activities aboard the vessel en route to the island of Lemnos. Arrive Port Mudros on 14 Apr 1915. Details an exploration of the island and its people. Troops practice disembarking, landing, and exercises on land. Prepares the men for landing at Gallipoli Peninsula. Quotes the special order for battle from General Sir Ian Hamilton, 21 Apr 1915. Prepares rations and supplies for his men. Leave Port Mudros at 6am on 25 Apr 1915. (25 Apr - 28 May 1915 on Message forms [MS-Papers-4130]). 29 May 1915 at Quinn's Post, describes Turkish attacks and fighting conditions. Malone took over commanding Courtney's Post on 1 Jun 1915. Details military communications and tactics, shelling and sniper fire. Malone takes over Quinn's Post with two of his Companies on 9 Jun 1915. Works through to late July when he is sent for a rest on the island of Imbros. Returns to Quinn's Post and records daily events through to Sunday 1 Aug 1915. Margin includes a count of Wellington Infantry Battalion's casualties to that date. Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (101 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph, original & carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book) Page 63 in diary includes sketch from ANZAC Cove depicting the positioning of troops. Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 108 digitised images. This diary includes both the original top copy with carbon, and sometimes just the carbon copy. There are two page 64s, slightly different, MSX-2546_064 and MSX-2546_064a. Page 71 is missing.

Date: 1915

From: Read, James Cornelius, 1871-1968: Images of the Gallipoli campaign

Reference: 1/4-058068-F

Description: Courtney's Post camp, Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War 1. Photograph taken in 1915 by James Cornelius Read. Other - Note on back of file print quotes from "The New Zealanders at Gallipoli" by Waite regarding Courtney's Post Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1916]

By: Moore-Jones, Horace Millichamp, 1868-1922

Reference: B-198-017

Description: A watercolour sketch showing the Gallipoli landscape of Courtney's Post, a front line position under New Zealand command. The location was situated between Quinn's Post to the north and Steel's Post to the south. It was named after Lieutenent Colonel Richard Courtney, the Australian military engineer who supervised its construction. The daytime scene shows the steep winding path from the floor of Monash Gully, leading to the entrenchments near the lip of the ridge, only metres away from the Turkish trenches. Figures and makeshift lean-tos are dotted amongst the scrub on the hillside. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Sapper H. Moore-Jones [in brushpoint] A very similar composition dated 1915 is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial (ID ART03261) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on card. Physical Description: Watercolour with pencil on card, 325 x 225 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in a private collection, Nelson