Malaya - History - Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960

Date: 1955-1957

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-318

Description: A Mr Peter Cooper was sent to Malaya during 1955-1957 as an official photographer, he may have taken the photographs in this album. Album consists of snapshots and passport-style photographs (6 x 6 cm) showing members of the New Zealand Special Air Service in Malaya between 1955 and 1957. Most captions handprinted in the album. Many personnel names are listed above, but there are over 100 more individual passport-style photographs in the album which have not been listed. Subjects covered include Eban (Iban) trackers from Borneo; life in the jungle including camping with hammock and ground sheet, and erecting a "Basha" or overnight shelter; jungle training; rubber & canvas jungle boots with an average life of 7-10 days; details of food and equipment needed for long periods on patrol in the jungle; cutting tracks through bamboo; checking for CTs (Communist terrorists); fording rivers. Views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malay villages; families of the SAS in their army houses; leave in Kuala Lumur; shopping; an Indian temple; the 22 SAS Museum in Kuala Lumpur with examples of Malaysian tools and weapons including CT guns and hand-made saws; and a parade at Coronation park in Kuala Lumpur; various sporting activities. The bulk of the album shows paratroopers in action with NZ SAS members boarding a naval helicopter; practice helicopter landing drill; practice loading of casualties (helicopters being used chiefly for casualty evacuation); guiding helicopters to land; native people wathcing helicopters land; clearing in the jungle for landing strips. Troops preparing for parachute jumps; parachute packing hangar; donning parachutes; troops inside Vickers Valetta transport aircraft; aerial views from plane; jumping at 800 ft. Later in the album there are more images of parachute training indoors from a "FAN" trainer (so called because harness was attached to a wind fan which gave resistance equal to a parachute on a jump) from a platform about 30 ft high. Earlier training was taken at Takapau and Waiouru; use of camouflage nets; field cookhouse; wading a creek; night exercise; jeep ambush; "Angus" the goat (the squadron mascot); flying fox training; Bren gun training; paratrooper training in a gym; clothes and weapons; volunteers for the Special Air Service; followed by parades and farewell march through Wellington before leaving for Malaya. Note that the NZSAS departed from Malaya in Dec 1957 and were replaced by the NZ Regiment Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "N.Z. Army Dept. S.A.S. No. 17"; 36.0 cm x 23.5 cm

Date: [1948-1960]

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-4161-06

Description: Albums compiled by New Zealand Government agencies documenting New Zealand participation in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960. Arrangement: Albums housed at PA1-q-318, PA1-q-319, Pa1-q-323, PA1-q-324 Quantity: 4 album(s).

Date: [1957 - 1959]

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-326

Description: Photographs of 1st Battalion, New Zealand Regiment, in New Zealand and Malaya.

Date: [2000]

By: Whyte, Colin David, 1932-

Reference: MSX-5935

Description: Reminiscences of Whyte describing his 21-year career in the army and later in the navy; he describes his time in school cadets (1946-1947), compulsory military training in the second intake (1950), his time in the medical corps of the Territorial Forces (1951-1953), in the Regular Force including ANZUK Hospital, Singapore, 2RNZIR Malaysia (1959-1961), 161 Battery RNZA in South Vietnam (1968) and most camps in New Zealand. He also writes of his four years at the RNZN hospital at Devonport. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Not to be published in its entirety during donor's lifetime Quantity: 1 volume(s) (91 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with reproduced photographs

Date: 1955

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: C-132-874

Description: Shows the Prime Minister Sid Holland in a shooting outfit and top hat, using a long bamboo peashooter to send a small missile towards the Malayan Peninsula. He has a rifle slung over his back and two grenades at his belt. Dated from Ian Grant's "The unauthorised version" (Auckland, 1980), where it appears with the title "Whoosh". Other Titles - Whoosh Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 333 x 482 mm.

Date: Aug 1955

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: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-164

Description: Series of captioned photographs showing the SAS training at Waiouru before leaving for Malaya. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [195-]

By: Low, Harry John Gordon, 1919-2003

Reference: PAColl-9179

Description: Photographs of Fiji Infantry Regiment in Malaya, 1950s, from the collection of Colonel Harry Low, taken by various photographers including Mee Lai and Lee Meng. Many of the individuals are identified, including Harry Low. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, mounted Provenance: Purchase, 2007

Date: [1959-1960]

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-f-117

Description: Photographs and clippings documenting the 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Regiment, in Malaya, ca 1959-1960.

Date: [1948-1960]

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-4161-14

Description: Portraits of members of the Special Air Service who served during the Malayan Emergency, 1955-1957. Arrangement: Negatives housed at SAS-0001 to SAS-0145.

Date: [1959-1961]

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-f-118

Description: Photographs and clippings documenting the 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Regiment, in Malaya, ca 1959-1961.

Date: [ca 1940s-1997]

By: Tikao, Tony Carl Piuraki, 1941-2012

Reference: PA-Group-00912

Description: Comprises photographs relating to Tony Carl Piuraki Tikao's military service in Malaya. Items cover the period circa 1940s to circa 1990s. Most of the photographs are from the 1960s period. Photographers unidentified. -Also includes photographs at veterans' reunions and photographs of the Tikao whanau. -Also includes photographs of border operations on the Malayan/Thailand border. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 153 b&w original photographic print(s). 62 colour original photographic print(s). 1 item of manuscript material. Physical Description: Album and photographic prints Provenance: Donated by George Tikao, Christchurch, 2014 and 2015. Donor is the brother of Tony Tikao. The material was collected by Tony and passed to George after Tony's death. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there. - To Ephemera Collection - School certificate, ration card, invitation, drivers licence, Vietnam veteran stickers, defence force medal information, RSA sticker with NZ flag, call up notice 1969, presentation of colours programme. PR-14-0188; EPH-A-SCHOOLS-Lyttelton-1950-01; EPH-A-VIETNAM-1967-01. - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Two fabric badges: DP-2014-038; Curios-049-008/009. - To Manuscripts & Archives - Three newspaper articles, three envelopes, 60c stamps, telegramme: MS-Papers-11734..

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

Date: 1915-1980

By: New Zealand Red Cross Society

Reference: PAColl-0168

Description: Copying done by M de Raadt in 1779 and 1980 The 11 photographs are all postcards Arrangement: Negatives in 35mm registers at 16051 - 16082. Quantity: 154 b&w copy negative(s). 11 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: Previously NEGColl-69/1

Date: [1948-1960]

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-4161-13

Description: Negatives taken by official New Zealand army photographers, documenting New Zealand participation in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960. Source of title - Titles supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at M-0001 to M-3515.

Date: 1946 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-COMMUNIST-1946/1949

Description: Includes election pamphlets for: Brian Berg for Island Bay 1946 (with photo); Ostler for Central 1949? ("Women, what of your life?"); Mrs Connie Birchfield for Brooklyn 1949 (with photo); Ken Stanton for Miramar 1949 (with photo); Ron Smith for Island Bay 1949 (with photo); A P Quinn for Petone 1949 (with photo); "Change in the capital city" - Bill McAra and Connie Birchfield, Town Hall Concert Chamber 28 October [1947] (with photos) Also includes pamphlets and flyers: "You wouldn't grab that line!" (1949 election brochure); "Police state menace grows" (1949); "Rugby or Race Prejudice? No team for South Africa!" (1948/49?); "Sweep out the Tories! Birchfield and McAra for Council" (1947); "YOU! and the General election" (Rita Smith for Parnell 1949); "Conscription means war!" (1949); "We challenge Randolph Churchill" (1947); "Murder in Malaya" (1949?); "Trouble brewing on the home front" (1947) Includes booklet by Monsignor Fulton Sheen "Communism" / Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, 10 July 1948. Quantity: 20 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on pamphlets, flyers. Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets and flyers, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1946-1960

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2658

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1941-1957

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2659

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1950s

From: Holland, Sidney George (Sir), 1893-1961 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7587-2

Description: Photographs of Prime Minister Sidney Holland's visit to Malaysia (then Malaya) some time during the 1950s. Many of the images show him inspecting local troops trained to fight communists in the civil war which is called the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917-1928, 1947-1959

By: Petersen, Harold William Rosen, 1921-1984

Reference: 89-074

Description: Comprises Malayan emergency patrol reports and log books (1953-1956), diaries and other papers relating to Petersen's duties in Korea and Vietnam. Also included are papers of Petersen's father, Hans Christian Frithjof Petersen (1917-1928). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es) (11 folders). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1959 - 1960

Reference: PAColl-3890

Description: 1st and 2nd Battalions Quantity: 157 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box. Physical Description: As originally mounted, on paper pages from album, now dissassembled and loose Processing information: Originally in albums sequence