World War, 1939-1945 - Photography

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

By: McGovern, Desmond Philip, 1917-2014

Reference: PA-Group-00437

Description: Photographs of 27 NZ machine gun battalion in Crete, Egypt and North Africa, WW2. The images are largely annontated verso and include images of desert battles, group photos, troopships and tanks etc. Also includes images from the camera of a German paratrooper. Photographs taken & collected by Private Desmond Philip McGovern. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - Transfers - to MSS; embarkation rolls, menus, postcards, bus passes - To Manuscripts & Archives - Embarkation rolls, menus, postcards, bus passes (MS-Papers-9341).

Date: ca 1940

By: Norrie, James Bell, 1900-1979; Fox Photos Ltd; Mitchell, Elizabeth, active 2018

Reference: PAColl-10621

Description: Photographic print taken by Fox Photos Limited of London circa 1940 showing (L to R) Mrs Harston, Mrs Levin [Levien?], and Corporal James Bell Norrie packing tins of food into brown paper parcels for men in the New Zealand forces based in England. The print bears on reverse the "Fox Photos" stamp, and a pasted on typescript caption "New Zealand women Prepare Xmas gifts from home, New Zealand women in this country are busy packing and re-addressing parcels containing Christmas gifts which have arrived from New Zealand for men of the New Zealand forces and those serving with the Navy and Air Force". Names of persons featured have been identified by handwriting on the reverse of the photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera Fox Photos Ltd office envelope. Physical Description: Black and white photographic print, on reverse bears two photographer's stamps in ink and a pasted on typescript caption, and a brown paper office envelope bearing the Fox Photos Ltd stamp Provenance: The print was originally owned by donor's stepfather James Bell Norrie.

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: PAColl-10052

Description: Five photographic contact sheets of Kaye's photographs depicting New Zealand soldiers in battle during World War Two. They show soldiers advancing through a landscape of bombed out buildings in Italy? and include photographs of a moving tank, and images of dead soldiers. Also one colour photograph of a memorial plaque commemorating Lt General B Freyberg. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Kaye was a war correspondent and photographer during World War Two. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets with 66 images. 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, dye coupler print Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-11407: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004.

Date: 1989-1995

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: MS-Papers-11407

Description: Folder comprises three letters from Paul R Freyberg to Kaye. Letters relate to Freyberg's biography of his father Lord Bernard Freyberg in 1991. Also includes newspaper cutting on Kaye's identification of one of his photographs in the National Library of New Zealand's exhibition `Kia Kaha - Forever Strong' in 1995. Source of title - Supplied by Library Kaye was a war correspondent and photographer during World War Two Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss & printed material Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts Section, transfers made from there. - To Photographic Archive - see Library reference PAColl-10052.

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-4161-01-020

Description: Largly New Zealand material and photographs of paintings of the war in the Pacific by Allan Barclay Barns-Graham (official war artist) and Oliver Arthur Gillespie. New Zealand material includes views of coastal defences, military training at various camps, prisoner of war camps, Home Guard, public military parades, sports, army personnel including portraits, guns, tanks and other weapons, repatriated soldiers, medical units, ministerial visits, the posthumous investiture of Lt Ngarimu with the V.C., and mechanical transport. Arrangement: This collection is made up of empty negative envelopes with captions some of which have file prints attached to them, and sheets of contact prints which are also captioned. All of the negative envelopes have the relevant negative numbers written written on them. 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. This collection contains material which has been called the "35mm" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Any negatives will be found in the 35mm registers at 16398 - 16509. (Feb 1995)

Date: 12 Feb 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: DA-05257-F

Description: Self portrait of Mr George Frederick Kaye, an official photographer with the NZ Publicity Service, in Italy during World War II, taken on 12 February 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 29 Nov 1943]

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04658-F

Description: This lonely apparently deserted bivvy is a NZ Artillery observation post in the Sangro River area, and is under direct enemy observation from the heights on the other side of the river. This area came in for considerable shelling and it necessitated the photographer crawling up cautiously behind a heap of stones to get this shot. Photograph taken circa 29 November 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 15 Mar 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05325-F

Description: Photographer M D Elias, NZ AFU, observing the results of the bomber raid on Cassino, Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken on 15 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 15 Feb 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05256-F

Description: Portrait of photographer M D Elias, New Zealand Film Unit, in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 15 February 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 2 Mar 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05295-F

Description: Photographer M D Elias, NZ Film Unit, at work filming in the Monte Cassino area in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 2 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 15 Mar 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: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-05326-F

Description: George Frederick Kaye, the New Zealand Official Photographer, in the forward areas of the Cassino Front in Italy. In the background can be seen bombs bursting during the raid on Cassino, during World War II. Photograph taken on 15 March 1944 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1941-1945

By: Pickrang, Francis John, 1915-1998; Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: PA1-q-1180

Description: Comprises photograph album belonging to Sapper Francis Pickrang (service no. 32297) relating to his service with the New Zealand Engineers, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy during World War Two. Taken between circa 1941 and 1945 by unidentified photographer(s) and K G Killoh. -Studio portraits of Pickrang and other unidentified servicemen include a sailor in naval uniform and a woman. Also includes a studio portrait of Pickrang at a desk writing letters home. He appears to be looking towards an inset image of a woman and child. -Scenes taken in Western Desert locations include informal snaps of Francis Pickrang, an unidentified sailor in naval uniform, and other army soldiers in camp life, sight-seeing at local landmarks, working at military construction projects and on the coast. Images of interest include: troops at the 'El Djem' theatre, Maadi Camp, Egypt, an army jeep with a silver fern logo and a picture of a Maori man with moko on the bumper, men washing clothes and drinking beer, men posing beside 'Monteith's Beer' graffiti, various bulldozers, tanks, army trucks and Caterpillar diesel vehicles at work, possibly a dredge offshore, the 'Auckland-Greymouth Clipper' army truck, a soldier posing beside a camp sign '10 Downing Street', soldiers posing with Egyptian locals and Sikh men, and soliders on motorcycles. -Scenes possibly taken in Libya include: bombed out buildings, Christian churches and Arabic style grand buildings, the 'Atlantic Hotel', a pyramid, soldiers swimming (sometimes nude) and beside trucks at a coastal location, earthworking machinery (road building?), RAF Hawker Hurricane and Bristol Beaufighter aeroplanes and a German Fieseler Fi 56 aeroplane on the ground, an aeroplane wreck, city streets with business signs in European languages, a coach, war graves, and signs for 'Nufilia' (Nofilia) and 'Feldlazarett' (German field hospital). -Scenes of interest taken in Egypt include an aeroplane named 'Asproliner', soldiers socialising, ambulances, a YMCA sign on a grand building, the YMCA Lowry Hut building at Maadi Camp, mosques, Qaitbay Citadel and the harbour of Alexandria, unidentified city streets, and cave homes. -Scenes relating to military medical services include: interior of a hospital in a grand house, doctors performing an operation in a tent, New Zealand and Red Cross flags, various New Zealand ambulances, a stretcher being loaded on an aeroplane, and an American Field Service ambulance. Includes duplicate image from the Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch collection of the 5th New Zealand Advanced Dressing Station ambulances at San Elia. -Scenes taken in Italy include images of the countryside and villages, bombed buildings, historic churches, fountains and buildings, city streets and piazzas, stone bridges, army trucks on the road, soldiers in camp, and piles of spent shells. Includes images of Italian peasants and children, haymaking and washing laundry. Also includes St Peter's Basilica and the Colosseum, Rome, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Roman archway in Alife, the fountain at the Royal Palace of Caserta, and Roman ruins. Also includes an Italian man with a chained bear. -Includes postcards showing Benito Mussolini at a rally and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Source of title - title supplied Library Inscriptions: Recto - centre - inside front cover inscribed '2 NZEF presented to 32297 Sapper F. Pickrang by the Government of New Zealand in recognition of his work with the New Zealand Engineers Middle East in the Second World War 1939-1945' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with silver decorative edging and silver lettering 'Photograph album' on cover, spiral bound, 33.5 x 29 cm Provenance: Purchase, March, 2014