Hargest, James (Brigadier), 1891-1944

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

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-295

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are named, are not individually listed above. Images include a consignment of 3000 cases of apples arriving at the New Zealand Forces Club in Egypt; YMCA secretaries of the NZEF in Crete before the blitz; NZ pilots at advanced RAF training school in England; King George II of Greece inspecting troops in the Middle East, being entertained by members of the Maori Battalion, and presenting medals to the platoon acting as his bodyguard on the Greek royal family's evacuation from Crete to Egypt (p 6-11). American aid to the ANZACs, showing a function in New York celebrating the presentation of over 100 ambulances to the fighting forces in Egypt, with (on p 12-15) views in Egypt of the ambulances & mobile surgical unit; the General Hospital at Helwan, with views inside wards, and life of convalescents including a swimming carnival, picnics and yachting (p 16-20); nurses' life at the General Hospital (p 139-141). Arrival of a mobile canteen for the YMCA (p 20-21); NZ soldiers on leave in Cairo; NZ cricket team at the Gezira Sporting Club (p 23-24); Parades of NZ units reviewed by general Freyberg; A YMCA canteen service van in Crete; opening of the Lowry Hut (p 8, p 28-30, p 34-35); Rowing races between a NZ team and Cairo representative team at the Cairo River Club (p 30-31, p 67). PM Peter Fraser's tour of NZ activities in Britain; broadcasts to NZ through the BBC's New Zealand programme (p 32-33, 92-93, 124-125); the New Zealand Forces Club (p 35-39, 44); ENSA Concert Party (p 40-42); staff at NZ House in London sorting parcels from NZ for NZ personnel. Attack on Crete (p 44-53), views taken by a German photographer who was killed in Crete, including Junkers transport carriers, Axis destroyers and wrecked German planes at Maleme airport; transport ship Glengyle after the evacuation from Crete. HMS Leander (p 55-61, p 79, p 84-85), includes group of sailors & NZ officers, all identified. Maori Battalion training in the Middle East; incidents during route march; two views of the official Netherlands Indies Women's organisation in wartime who looked after NZ airmen passing through batavia (Djakarta) (P 66, 68); sports meeting at the Prince Farouk Stadium Cairo (p 68-73, 83); artillery callibrating guns (p 73-79); field ordnance worlshops; Mobile Surgical Unit; copies of paintings by war artist peter McIntyre (p 87-91); Bomber Command Operational Training Unit. Postal unit (p 94-101); wireless operator air gunners after training at the WAG course at Mountain View Air Station in Canada (all named, p 96-97); investiture conferring Greek decorations on NZ officers (p 101-102, 110-111); Kiwi Concert Party (p 103-110); manouevres in the desert; fire brigade at NZ Base Camp (p 118-122); 2nd Echelon Office keeping personal records (p 120, 122-123); camp laundry in Egypt (p 128-130); work of a Light Aid Detachment in the field; the original ANZAC Club, Singapore (p 144); training under active service conditions in desert (p 145-149); visit by NZ soldiers to a stable maintained by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis raising Arab horses. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 782-1226. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1939-1940

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: McKenzie, J S (Private), active 1940

Reference: PA1-q-293

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel in New Zealand, England and Egypt, taken 1939-1940 and compiled for official use. Most of the images have good captions, and most of the names noted are listed above. The album includes a number of British Official Photographs. Scenes include New Zealanders in the advance party sailing from Melbourne in December 1939; shipboard scenes of the First Echelon arriving in Egypt; Freyberg welcoming the troops on arrival with Anthony Eden (Secretary of State for the Dominions) and Sir Miles Lampson; the train service between the NZ camp and Cairo; Egyptian workmen helping construct the camp, and women doing the laundry; Divisional Signallers lined up on motor bikes. Battle practice and army life in the desert: anti-tank & anti-aircraft practice; bren guns; vehicle maintenance; blacksmiths; operating the telephone exchange; engineering work; sorting mail; manufacturing field oven; chopping wood for the oven; food preparation; boot mending; camp cinema; various games including cards, bowls, cricket, swimming, boxing; disinfecting plant for killing pests in soldiers' blankets; digging trenches; erecting tents. Opening of the Kiwi Club at Helwan, formed through the efforts of Lady Lampson. Three photographs taken by a sergeant of the Royal Marines, showing action related to the battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate (p 65, 111, 133) New Zealanders resident in England who volunteeered at the outbreak of war are shown training with the Eastern Command; manoevres with the 2nd Echelon in Britain, and the opening of a new club for New Zealanders in Charing Cross Road; Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops in 1940; NZ armourers and wireless operators working for the RAF; information about the longest non-stop reconnaisance flight made in a Vickers Wellington bomber, piloted and crewed by members of the RNZAF Bomber Squadron (5 crew + 1 officer from the Navy to assist in ship identification); and Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops. In Libya scenes show a motor rail car which patrolled the rail to Matruh; "Whare Kiwi" dugout in the Libyan Desert; The first air raid experienced in a small village in the Cairo area. NZ airmen arrive in Canada for training in the Empire Air Trianing Scheme; haka led by Pine Takarangi. Transportation of troops and equipment across inland water, use of collapsible assault boats and building bridges. Western Desert battle; Italian and Libyan prisoners of war; captured tanks and vehicles; view of the Italian defence line; also the surrender of Traghen when the whole population of the Libyan Fort marched out in surrender. Various hospital scenes, both in England and in Egypt, including occupational therapy activities. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

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: PA1-q-296

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Includes photographs of New Zealand fighter and bomber pilots serving with the Royal Air Force, and several British Official photographs relating to New Zealand fighter pilot with the RAF, James Allen Ward, who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Most individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include a visit by NZ soldiers to stables run by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis; a NZ military band on tour in Palestine as part of a recruiting campaign; the arrival of the first party of Women's War Service Auxiliary in Egypt, and scenes of their life in the Welfare Section and at the New Zealand Forces Club (p 7, p 146-149); and RNZAF trainees at the Air Observer School, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Life, military training and manouevres in the Western desert; ordnance workshops; the advance in the Western Desert; a NZ medical unit, a mobile surgical unit; hospital scenes (p 100, 103-105, 111). Sporting and entertainments include a wood-chopping "Axemen's Carnival" in South England; rugby matches in the Western Desert (p 29, 37-38, 82-83, 85, 93, 101-103, 107, 109); swimming (probably at Baggush; p 38-40, 44); and Christmas celebrations in the desert, including the Kiwi Concert Party (p 122-129); and a view of the YMCA Hostle at Alexandria. Inspection of NZ reinforcements in Egypt by William J Jordan (NZ High Commissioner in London); General Auchinleck presenting decorations to NZ soldiers, and reviewing NZ troops on the eve of the Libyan Campaign (p 49-57, 111-115); the Western Desert Battle, NZers bringing in German Prisoners of War; German General von Ravenstein captured by NZ troops, and scenes of various captured German vehicles, gas masks, a Nazi whip, and weapons; the Libyan advance (p 63-72); and the Railway Construction Unit in the Western Desert. Scenes of a New Zealand fighter squadron in Malaya (p 80-81, 87-89). NZers in Tobruk (p 96-99); one view of NZers at a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany (Stalag VI B) taken by Lieutenant Rangi (p 108); NZers arriving back at Base Camp after 5 weeks of imprisonment at Bardia, some of whom are named (p 117-121); four NZ soldiers who walked from Benghazi to west of Gazala (listed above); manouevres after the Libyan Campaign. Presentation of decorations by General Freyberg to members of the 2nd NZEF in hospital; views of a NZ Spitfire Squadron operating with the RAF Fighter Command, the planes subscribed for by the people of NZ (p 138-141); reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 133-138). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 1227-1668. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1938

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-198

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940-2007

From: Donnelly, William Ian McLaren, 1901-1956 : Letters and papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12061

Description: Copmprises letters to Donnelly, and to his brother, Sir Arthur Telford Donnelly, with some occasional annotations and additions by the donor, his daughter, Ann Elder. Letter with typescript copy from Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger to Arthur Donnelly, 1941, about the Crete campaign, and another from 1950. Also a short 1954 letter from Kippenberger to Ian Donnelly after Arthur's death. Also includes a letter from Denis McLean to Elder about Kippenberger and Donnelly, 3 Oct 2007; a Athens News newspaper clipping about Kippenburger and Arthur Donnelly, 21 May 2004, and a group photograph from 1952, including Kippenberger, Charles Upham, Jim Burrows, and Arthur Donnelly. Also a letter from Sir James Hargest to Arthur Donnelly, 6 June 1940, together with a short memoir about Hargest, by an unidentified author, and a incomplete typescript "With the Fifth Brigade in Greece." Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter, photograph

Date: [1939-1948]

From: Beaglehole, Timothy Holmes, 1933-2015: Papers of John Cawte Beaglehole and his family

Reference: MS-Papers-11535-097

Description: Dust jackets and sample title pages for publications of the Department of Internal Affairs, programme for the funeral of Brigadier James Hargest, and a photograph of a medal `For service to New Zealand 1939-1945. Dust jackets include: `Abel Janszoon Tasman & the discovery of New Zealand'; New Zealand Centennial Surveys - `The exploration of New Zealand' by W G MCcClymont and `The women of New Zealand' by Helen M Simpson; G H Scholefield's `Dictionary of New Zealand biography'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: [ca 1940]

By: David Bateman Ltd

Reference: PAColl-3112

Description: Portrait of James Hargest in military uniform, circa 1940. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 24.5 x 19.4 cm Provenance: Donated by David Bateman Ltd in 1993

Date: [1941]

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-210

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of James Hargest (back) shaking hands with Winston Churchill, Freyberg behind him (PAColl-8151).

Date: 1944-1945

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1624-001/1

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1991-1993

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7811-179

Description: Notes, photocopies, articles and correspondence referring to the life, military career and death of Brigadier James Hargest of the 2NZEF including his escape from a Prisoner of War camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: September 1940

By: Coates, Joseph Gordon (Rt Hon), 1878-1943

Reference: PAColl-8151

Description: Photograph of Brigadier James Hargest shaking hands with Winston Churchill, taken September 1940 by an unidentified photographer. General Freyberg is standing behind Churchill. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Verso - centre - The visit of Mr Churchill to my Brigade Sept 1940 Sorry for the back view of me. Gen Freyberg is behind Mr Churchill Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.9 x 10.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0030 : Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers. The photograph was attached to a letter from Hargest to Coates (MS-Papers-1785-210).

Date: 1930-1933, 1934-1935

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-187

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952

By: Nolan, Maxwell Anthony, 1923-2003

Reference: PAColl-3120

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Lt. Hargest (later killed), Malayan Emergency with 1 Bn Fiji Reg 1952 (Brig. Hargest's son) on log bridge in the never never. (That {?} {?} gaping look is {?} by all of us at the concluding stage of a patrol Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: Photoprint 50 x 64mm Provenance: Provenance uncertain. Print found in PA Series: 7 sequence

Date: [1926-ca 1957]

By: Harrop, Angus John Neville, 1900-1963

Reference: MS-Papers-4476

Description: Contains correspondence between Harrop and various people, including Sir James Parr, Lord Bledislow and Sir James Hargest, concerning the `New Zealand News'. Also contains a summary, by Harrop, of the first 102 issues of the newspaper and a number of newspaper clippings of stories written by Harrop. Source of title - supplied title Other - Library has other Angus John Harrop material at MS-Papers-1271, MS-Papers-4476, MS-Papers-5703 and MS-Papers-5704 Accompanying material - List of the items which make up this collection was supplied by D Harrop and is held in the backfile. Angus John Harrop was born in Hokitika in 1900 and was educated at Hokitika, Waitaki Boys' High School, Canterbury University College and Cambridge, where he gained a LittD and PhD. He commenced his journalistic career on `The Press', served on the literary staffs of the `London Daily Mail' and the`Sunday Dispatch' and from 1941 to 1953 was the news editor of the Sydney Daily Mirror's London service. He was agent in England for the University of New Zealand from 1931-1943 and for Canterbury University College 1931-1950. In 1927 he founded the `New Zealand News', a fortnightly newspaper published in London for New Zealanders in Britain and remained its editor until 1960. He was helped in this venture by his wife Hilda (nee Valentine). He was author of several books on New Zealand and contributor to the `Cambridge History of the British Empire'. Harrop died in 1963. The `New Zealand News' continues to be published. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (16 pieces). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 1992

Date: 1939

From: Coates, Joseph Gordon, 1878-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-200

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1944

From: Waite, Frederick, 1884-1952 : Papers

Reference: 78-165-1/17

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1941-1949

From: Heenan, Joseph William Allan (Sir), 1888-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1132-270

Description: Only selected correspondents entered in Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 22 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-13918-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

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: DA-01453-F

Description: Brigadier James Hargest greets the Greek Minister of War, Mr S Dimitrakakkis. Taken at Maadi September/October 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1935

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-018613-F

Description: Shows members of the House of Representatives in the twenty fifth Parliament. From top, left to right: - C M Williams, J W Munro, Colonel J Hargest, W J Lyon, E J Howard, W M C Denham, W P Endean, H M Christie, G H O Wilson, A F Moncur, C A Barrell, W J Jordan, B Roberts, W E Barnard (Speaker), D McDougall, H E Herring, A H Nordmeyer, E P Meachen, R McKeen, J O'Brien, D W Coleman, D G Sullivan, M J Savage, P C Webb, T D Burnett, A G Osborne, J Thorn, A S Richards, A G Hultquist, C H Chapman, S G Smith, W J Polson, K J Holyoake, Dr D G McMillan, D Barnes, J G Barclay, F Jones, W Nash, W L Martin, H G R Mason, Captain Rushworth, H G Dickie, A C A Sexton, G W Forbes, W J Broadfoot, Sir A Ransom, P Fraser, W E Parry, Robert Semple, R Coulter, W A Bodkin, Sir Apirana Ngata, T Henare, E T Tirikatene, H T Ratana, C L Carr, J L McIlroy, J G Coates, C A Wilkinson, W T Anderton, P Neilson, H T Armstrong, J A Lee, F Langstone, E L Cullen, C H Burnett, A Campbell, G Lowry, A Hamilton, J G Cobbe, S G Holland, H Atmore, J Hodgens, A J Manson (Sergeant-at-arms), T H McCombs, J B F Cotterell, R A Wright, J Robertson, C L Hunter, F W Schramm, C R Petrie, H S S Kyle and T D H Hall (Clerk of the House). Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew in 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).