World War, 1939-1945 - Military personnel, New Zealand - Norfolk Island

Date: 1942-1944

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-4161-01-108

Description: General views of the bays and off-shore islands, landing NZ troops, construction by Australian working party of slipway at Cascade Bay, visit to Governor-General, NZ hospital, etc. Includes views of Anson Bay, Ball Bay (one with SS Roseville in distance), Kingston, Nepean and Philip islands, Cemetery Bay, Cascade Bay. Shows coast line, jetties and slipways, old buildings used when island was a penal colony and whaling station; Norfolk pines. Governor-General meeting NZ miliary personnel and nurses; visiting patient at NZ hospital. Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1944-1945

From: Duthie, Alastair Simpson, 1912-1995 :Photographs of Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition, coast watching in Sub-Antarctic Islands, service in Pacific, 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-8102-3

Description: Landscape and coastal views of Norfolk Island and Philip Island; the remains of convict settlements and prisons at Kingston; Duthie and collegues visiting seabirds nesting on Philip Island; photographs of Gannets, Terns and Bosun Birds taken while on Philip Island; group photographs of Duthie and other men of the military meteriological service, one group taken outside "Pine Villa Weather Office." Photographs of Alister Duthie and collegues in military uniform; photographs of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands, which are mainly views of local places and people, most unidentified. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943

By: Allen, John Gerald, 1916-1997

Reference: PAColl-8694

Description: Group portrait of New Zealand military personnel on Norfolk Island during World War II, including Staff Sergeant J G Allen, technician in charge of the radar station, taken ca 1943 by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - This belonged ? to S/Sgt John Gerald Allen Trained N.Z. Radar 1942. before Radar work. Norfolk Is Accompanying material - Notes relating to donated items Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.2 x 16.3 cm Provenance: Given to Megan Hutching, historian working on oral history projects relating to World War Two at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, who passed the papers on to the Alexander Turnbull Library on behalf of the donor. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8368 : Allen, John Gerald 1916-1997 : Papers relating to serving in the Pacific during World War. See also Drawings and Prints Collection : [Eight cartoons from the Pacific campaign, 1943-1944.].

Date: 9 Mar 1942-24 Mar 1945, 30 May 2004-2005

By: Allen, John Gerald, 1916-1997

Reference: MS-Papers-8368

Description: Includes, a completed questionnaire on `New Zealanders' experiences in the Pacific Campaign', a copy of Allen's story of his time on Norfolk Island as part of the Pacific Campaign, Allen's soldiers pay book, caricatures and a photograph relating to Allen's time in the Pacific. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Given to Megan Hutching, historian working on oral history projects relating to World War Two at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, who passed the papers on to the Alexander Turnbull Library on behalf of the donor. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts on 31 August 2005 ; material transferred to Photographic Archive and Drawings and Prints. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 8 caricatures - To Photographic Archive - 1 photo of New Zealand personnel on Norfolk Island, 1943 (PAColl-8694).