Transport of sick and wounded

Date: 1943-1944

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

By: Barns-Graham, Allan Barclay, 1906-2006

Reference: PA1-q-303

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Amongst the official NZ photographs there are a few from the official British war photographs. Signals personnel train at the New Zealand School of Signals in New Caledonia; New Zealanders construct roads on Vella Lavella; the Post office at Vella Lavella; the boot repair section; arrival of Xmas mail in New Caledonia. Works services engaged in construction of the NZ General Hospital No 4; hospital wards; wounded and sick soldiers with nursing staff; and convalescents; Xmas dinner at the Artillery Training Dept; New Year function at the No 4 General Hospital (Boguen Detachment); an ice cream plant amenity provided by the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board. Field maintenance camp in the Solomons. Various sporting activities at a number of sites in the Pacific including boxing championships, race meetings, aquatic sports carnival on Vella Lavella including a Xmas-New Year treasure hunt; native canoes; cricket; rugby games and team portraits; New Year sports meetings; road race; swimming carnival and basketball. Group portraits of officers and staff at the New Zealand Base Reception Depot; the Base Ordnance Dept.; Wharf operating Unit; WAAC personnel at the NZ Convalescent Depot; presentation of awards by H E Barrowclough. Embarkation of NZ troops for a commando raid on Green Islands (known as the Green Island Campaign and as the Nissan Campaign); troops boarding a destroyer by means of nets on the side; soldiers wounded in the raid; men camouflaged with blackened faces; LSTs (Tank Landing Ships); unloading heavy vehicles and equipment form LSTs; fresh water being brought ashore from an LST; LCI (Landing Craft for Infantry) amphibious ships. Parade of various NZ troops welcoming "Fighting French" volunteers home from North Africa; a NZ casualty clearing station at Guadalcanal. Activities of NZ troops at Nissan Island; capture of Japanese antitank guns, army radio sets and medical equipment; group portraits of various personnel on Nissan Island. Dr W W Hallright with assistants giving medical treatment to Nissan Island natives prior to their being evacuated to Guadalcanal, and also giving medical treatment for Pinipel natives. Scenes on Treasury Island include native islanders thatching a roof for a new church at Falamai built by NZ soldiers in memory of NZ and American soldiers, and presented to the nation to replace their church which had been destroyed by fire in the Treasury Islands campaignl; the cemetery at Falamai; a church service at the open air "St James' Theatre"; yacht races; a barbershop. On Nissan Island the No 2 Platoon of a Field Co. engineers constructing Halas Pier and Salipal Pier; a sawmill operated by Field Park Sawmill section; Field Ambulance laboratory; malarial control unit; group portraits of various sections; wood chopping competitions. In New Caledonia there are many scenes of the Kalavere Hospital and the 2nd NZ Convalescent Depot; the opening of the new Kiwi Club built by NZ work services personnel who built it from prefabricated sections made in NZ, with representatives from the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board attending; a dance at the club; dance band; and the Moindah Racing Club meeting. On Mono Island a naval control tower; and Saveke Bridge built by NZ engineers. On Stirling Island scenes of an antitank battery; army and navy personnel meet on Treasury Island; Anzac Day parade in Bourail Camp (New Caeldonia); scenes of members of the Fijian Defence Force with New Zealanders in Bouganville; a native church at the Allied Cemetery in Guadalcanal. Views of the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Pacific showing crew members; the boiler room; engine room; gun crew practice; and depth charge drill. Black and white reproductions of 5 paintings by 3rd NZ Division war artist Lt Allan Barns-Graham: The town of Bourail; a bridge designed and built by NZ engineers designed to carry the heaviest loads; a sketch of a fox-hole near Island Command on Vella Lavella; caped men returning from an engagement on Nissan Island; and the landing at Pokonian Plantation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [1943-1944]

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: PA1-q-302

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Many scenes show NZers in training exercises in New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, including Bren carriers crossing rivers on raft & trestles erected by military engineers; signals; road construction; thatching and constructing buildings (the Works Construction Unit); amphibious training from invasion barges; unloading and landing supplies; transporting guns and equipment; bridge building; digging fox holes and camping in the jungle; jungle warfare; maintaining wireless communication; organising camouflage; repairing damaged weapons; use of local canoes for transportation; ordnance workshops; and weapon training. Many scenes show parades, and inspections, including the King's Birthday parade in New Caledonia; a church parade; the Hon Mr F Jones visiting NZ troops; visit of Hon W Perry; visit of General Freyberg; visit of Admiral Halsey (US); and visit of the Governor of New Caledonia. Sporting activities, including individual players and group portraits of various teams of rugby players, soccer teams, hockey teams, swimming teams and a carnival, boat races, athletics, jockeys and horse racing, wrestling and boxing; surf clubs including the Engineers' team, Infantry No 2 team, and the Signals' team. Daily scenes including food preparation and coking; an anti-mosquito campaign; a leave centre for pacific troops; a dance sponsored by the American Red Crosss Service Club, and a celebration of New Zealand Day at the club; casting votes for NZ elections and a visit of scrutineers overseeing the voting; NZEF Base Repertory Players and the Kiwi Concert Party; a Base Camp reception at the hospital in New Caledonia; a garden party held by the Officers' School; Xmas parcels for NZ troops in the advanced Pacific Base. Images linked with medical care in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Treasury Islands include hospitals; medical personnel including dental surgeons, opticians and nurses; convalescent depot; and evacuation and transportation of the sick and wounded; and scenes of funeral services and graves of NZ soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Transportation of equipment and troops loading and embarking for the north from New Caledonia; landing craft; Liberty ships; New Zealanders in Guadalcanal. The NZ Brigade arriving in Guadalcanal, and the move from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella on board L.S.Ts (Landing ship, tank); climbing up nets on the side of transports; bulldozer drawing heavy vehicles and equipment from the L.S.T.; New Zealand soldiers with Fijian commandoes; use of outrigger canoes; capture of a Japanese armed coastal barge, a Japanese supply boat and camp equipment left by retreating Japanese. Treasury Islands campaign in which a small group of NZ worked with native guides; two native chiefs who were extremely helpful; a NZ camp at Malsi on Mono Island; Falamai Village; water collection at Saveke River on Mono Island; tree cutting to provide wood for pump bases and flooring; unloading drums of petrol; NZ troops consolidate on Treasury Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1916-1917

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6972-15

Description: Most of the images in this collection record the military and the sites of frontline action. There are fewer images of the ambulance units, dressing stations and field hospitals. In 1916 Agnes Bennett was appointed commanding officer of the 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service. From August 1916 her field hospital was attached to the Serbian army. An attack of Malaria led to her resignation in October 1917.(info from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol three, 1901-1920. The 7th Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service was called the American Unit because funds for its equipment and operation were raised in America. (Info from \"No Easy Path: The life and times of Lilian Violet Cooper,\" Lesley M Williams, Amphion Press, Brisbane, Australia, 1991.\") Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1916-1917

By: Wilkie, Donald J, active 1982

Reference: PAColl-0183

Description: Photographs taken during World War I, photographer unknown. Each photograph is annotated on the reverse - possibly by Donald Wilkie. They show military personnel in Egypt around the battles of Magdhaba (1916) and Rafah (1917). Includes: - Infantry marching, and riding on both horse and camel back, heading to and from battle, - Turkish prisoners and guns which have been captured, - Military camp near El Arish, - A minesweeper wrecked off the coast, - Hospital, hospital train, and wounded soldiers being transported by Red Cross carts, - and a football match between Auckland and Wellington troops. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints (mainly silver gelatin prints) Processing information: This collection was retrospectively described in 2015. D J Wilkie's role in the creation of this collection is unknown.

Date: 15 - 16 August 1992

By: Green, Joy, active 1992

Reference: OHColl-1495-01

Description: An interview with John (Jack) McLeod discussing his involvement with the 4th Field Ambulance Service during World War Two. Decribes his reasons for joining, the journey to Egypt, his experiences of open warfare, risks faced, the equipment available and used, friendships and his feelings at the end of the war. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Interview(s). Search dates: 15/08/1992 - 16/08/1992

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1521

Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).

Date: 1917-1918

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-605

Description: Album is the second part of a two-album record of the British campaigns in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1918. It is a record of the Palestine campaign after the capture of El Arish. Thus its story really begins at Rafa on the Egyptian/Palestine boarder and ends with General Allenby's triumphal entry into the city of "Jerusalem the Blessed" (his words) on 11 December 1917. As a record it presents a detailed account of the actions, movements, encampments, places, troops, countryside, and locals as experienced by a New Zealand officer participant. The photographs are well documented and identified. In relation to place names, spellings from books and maps have been used. Album spellings have been added to the "non preferred" slot in the place records, so that they are linked to the official place name spellings and can thus be used in a search. Arrangement: Negatives for the prints in this album should be among those registered at F 178589 1/2 to F 178976 1/2, and F178993 1/2 to F 179124 1/2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1880-1945]

By: Argosy Industrial Photos; Sherlock, William, 1846-1910; Rohloff, L, active 1910s; Photographie Henri (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0411

Description: Photographs mostly of the ambulance corps in the First World War but also including at least one from the Second World War, family photographs in New Zealand and newspaper clippings. The First World War photographs include some with names on the reverse. The names given are: from the 13th Field Ambulance Johnsonville, Sergeants Sid Jones, Harry Woods, Clarence(?) Crooks, Jack Harris, Roy Kennedy, Ivan Haldreth, Ernie Wilson, Jim Bennett, Chris Parsons and Staff-Sergeants Quartermain and Bert Orange; from the No. 3 Field Ambulance, Shearer, Perrett(?), Cook, Hooper, Gilmour, Cable, Franks, Dunn, Netge(?), Regan, Greenslade, Myers, Dick, Anderson, Buchanan, Sgt Block, Staff Sgt Dredge, Capt Finlayson, Sgt Dillon, Sgt Lawrence, Sgt Evans, Sgt Fogg, Burgess, Spooner, Moxham, Dyson, Perry, Stevenson, Wickstead; from No. 3 Field Ambulance cooks, Simpson, Smith, Pearce, Spooner, Slade, Cook, Bellesden, McNaughton, McPherson. Scenes include the No 3 Field Ambulance headquarters at Louvencourt, New Zealand and Australian troops in Paris and Versailles, and Corporal Milne and Leading Aircraftman McMillan on a camel in Giza. There are also two photographs one of the 13th Field Ambulance and the other of a farewell dinner which are completely captioned for names including a typed list of the entire unit. The newspaper clippings are from a variety of publications and are mostly official photographs. The civilian photographs include: a photograph of Eric Liddell with his signature attached; two of a large group of veterans on the terracing at a sports ground; and two cartes de visite one of an older woman and one of a young boy. Also includes a copy of the brochure 'Le Pantheon de la Guerre'. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941

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-4161-01-034-2

Description: The return of the first 338 wounded troops from Greece and Crete on the hospital ship Maunganui, 10 July 1941 Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: PAColl-4161-01-018-2

Description: Mainly New Zealand, South Pacific, and Egypt. Includes rehabilitation, embarkation, roadmaking, camps, jungle clearing, Dental Corps, house/hut building, Palmer Head, Wellington, radio installation, artificial limbs, Fort Ballance, Wellington, hospital ship returning to Wellington, Ambulance Corps Arrangement: This collection is made up of empty negative envelopes to each of which is attached a file print. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. The material in this collection is from the "WH" series . They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Negative numbers have been written on the envelopes (Feb 1995). Negatives can be found in the registers at F 176446 1/2 - F 176630 1/2. Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: November 1927

By: Wellington Free Ambulance

Reference: fMS-Papers-5015

Description: Page of the Wellington Free Ambulance case register recording details of the first 34 cases dealt with by the service in November 1927. Also contains a copy of a newspaper clipping dated 9 November 1927 describing the opening ceremony for the Wellington Free Ambulance. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor worked for the Wellington Free Ambulance service during the 1950's. He and other staff rescued this part of the register during this time. Rest of this register was lost. Donor/Lender/Vendor - J McKeen, Wellington, 1994

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: PAColl-4161-01-018-1

Description: Mainly New Zealand, the South Pacific, and Egypt. Includes rehbilitation, embarkation, road making, camps, jungle clearing, Dental Corps, house/hut building, Palmer Head, Wellington, radio installation, artificial limbs, Fort Ballance, Wellington, hospital ship returning to Wellington, Ambulance Corps Arrangement: This collection is made up of empty negative envelopes to each of which is attached a file print. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. The material in this collection is from the "WH" series . They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Negative numbers have been written on the envelopes (Feb 1995). Negatives can be found in the registers at F 176446 1/2 - F 176630 1/2. Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: [ca Jul 1941]

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: DA-01349-F

Description: Military personnel at the handing over of ambulances presented from the British American Ambulance Corps and the Anzac War Relief Fund. Taken at Maadi circa July 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: January 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

By: Brown, James G, active 1945

Reference: DA-11510-G

Description: Bren carrier converted to a stretcher carrier, Faenza, Italy, January 1945, photographed by James G Brown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [Between 1915 and 1918]

By: Davis, L P, active 1915

Reference: PA1-o-514

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by L P Davis. (Possibly I P Davis). They all relate to the First World War, first in Egypt and Palestine, with a break in England, before then being posted to Belgium and France. Many of the desert photographs are associated with medical arrangements, with the transportation of wounded soldiers on "cacelot camels", and on sledges or sandcarts; the Imperial Camel Corps; the 27th General Hospital in Cairo; care of wounded Turkish soldiers; and the New Zealand Mounted Field Ambulance. Other desert images show a group of Scottish soldiers; Bedouin prisoners; camel convoys; transportation of soldiers across the desert on long open trains; the transportation of water tanks by camel; biplanes; and British and German tanks. The English photographs are taken in London and Cambridge. The Belgian and French photographs show bomb damage, particularly at Ypres, including damage to the Cathedral; the village of Bapaume after capture by New Zealand troops in 1918; Boulogne, Bertincourt, Messines and Armentieres; with one photograph of a horse laden with ammunition bogged down in a sink hole. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan pigskin cover, entitled "Photographs" with name in lower right-hand corner "L.P. Davis" (?); 16.5 x 21.0 cm Provenance: Donated by Ruth Watson, Auckland, 1985

Date: [ca 1995]

By: Ball, Desmond Kevin, 1921?-

Reference: MS-Papers-6489

Description: Title continues:`...recollections of an ambulance driver.' Ball describes his experiences as an ambulance driver during the Italian campaign of World War II; he writes of arriving in the Middle East and Italy and describes the various operations and duties he took part in. The memoirs hae been edited by his daughter, Shirley Fairest, who has included photographs from the War History Collection of the Turnbull Library and a map showing the battle plan for the Po Valley. Source of title - Transcribed Ball served in the 4th Field Ambulance Unit in Italy during World War II Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with laser photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs S Fairest, Henderson, Auckland, Feb 1999 Includes photographs from the Turnbull collection and a map of the Po Valley campaign

Date: 26 Aug 1992

From: After the war; World War II veterans oral history project.

By: Ryburn, Ian Graham, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0114/10

Description: Ian Ryburn was born on the Indian-Pakistan border on 18 September 1916, the son of missionary parents. Gives details of his family background. Describes studying for the ministry and becoming an ambulance driver during World War II. Talks in detail about this experience and about being a prisoner of war. Describes the effect of the war on him, his ministry and family. Talks about helping bikies and gang members as a minister. Describes his resignation from the ministry. Venue - Christchurch : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005353; OHC-005354; OHC-005355; OHC-005356 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1018.

Date: 29 Aug 1992

From: After the war; World War II veterans oral history project.

By: Hider, Walter John, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0114/11

Description: Walter Hider was born in Christchurch on 23 September 1918. Describes being in the 5th field Ambulance in the Middle East during World War II and the effect of the war on him. Venue - Christchurch : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005334; OHC-005335 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1009.

Date: 1942 - 1945

By: Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-Oranje-1940s

Description: Includes: 1. MS 'Oranje' (Hat or bodice pin featuring a representation of the ship. ca 1942) 2. Photograph of the 'Oranje' in port [ca 1942] 3. Souvenir postcard of the First Netherlands Indies' Hospital ship 'Oranje' is presented by the Red Cross Association of the Netherlands Indies. from a pointing by John Allcot [ca 1942] Menus: 4. Dinner Hospitaalschip 'Oranje' [Menu] 2 Februari 1942 5. Dinner Hospitaalschip 'Oranje' [Menu] 5 Februari 1942 6. Luncheon Hospitaalschip 'Oranje' [Menu] 6 Februari 1942 7. Luncheon Hospitaalschip 'Oranje' [Menu] 9 Februari 1942 8. Farewell Dinner to the hospital units for the Middle East, Wednesday February 11th 1942. [Autographed menu] 9. Menu breakfast, Hospitalship 'Oranje', Thursday February 12th 1942 10. Menu breakfast, Hospitalship 'Oranje', Friday February 13th 1942 11. Dinner on the occasion of the birthday of HRH Princess Irene. Hospital ship 'Oranje',Sunday August 5th 1945 (2 copies, one autographed by several persons including the captain) The ephemera has been published by Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 11 items, plus a duplicate of one menu. Physical Description: Offset prints, and metal badge, sizes varying up to 320 mm Provenance: Donated by Tom Davies, Te Awamutu, in 2016. Tom Davies was the nephew of the collector Wilhelmina Molly Smart.

Date: 1885-1996

By: Order of St. John. Priory in New Zealand

Reference: MS-Group-0943

Description: Includes Priory Council and other minute books, including those of several divisions of the St John Ambulance, Ladies' Guild and Hospitallers clubs, 1885-1996; letter books of Secretary, Dominion Executive and St John Ambulance, Wellington Centre, 1895-1934; personnel files relating to staff officers and regional divisions, 1950-1991; Registers and lists of awards granted, 1944-1991 and annual returns submitted by divisions of St John Ambulance from throughout New Zealand. Also includes selected digital images from Fisher scrapbook; microfilm and microfiche of papers held in the Grand Priory Archive (Great Britian). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 57 box(es). 145 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 5 megabyte(s). 1 microfilm reel(s). 38 microfiche. 19.50 Linear Metres. 1 Electronic document(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, microfilm, microfiche and electronic documents Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs of members.