Godley, Alexander John (Sir), 1867-1957

Date: 1919 (1957)

By: Meek, James Gray, 1886-1960

Reference: MS-1629

Description: The holograph annotations, made in 1957, contain critical comments on the text of the book, and add additional information based on Meek's wartime experience Meek served with the New Zealand Engineers during World War One and saw action at Gallipoli and on the Western Front Quantity: 1 volume(s) (350 pages and 24 pages of annotations tipped in). Physical Description: Printed matter (with holograph annotations in ink, interleaved) (22 cm; brown cloth boards)

Date: Between 1911 and 1912

From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums

By: Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: PA1-o-221

Description: Album created by Captain C Hellier Evans (Charles Hellier David Evans), commander of A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, in the Gisborne area. Numbers of group portraits of officers and non-commissioned officers give surnames with rank, and occasionally initials as well. The album opens with several views of Major General Godley inspecting troops, and then presenting medals to individual soldiers. Several photographs on page 7 show Gisborne celebrations in connection with the coronation of George V, June 1911. Various military activities are shown, at military camps (including two nurses in uniform), and the regimental training ground at Tutira. Other Titles - Capt. C. Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th Wellington E.C. M.R., Gisborne. No. 2 Other Titles - Captain Charles Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, Gisborne. No. 2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, entitled `Capt. C. Hellier Evans. A Squadron E.C. M.R., Gisborne. no. 2'; 24.0 cm x 31.5 cm

Date: 1916

By: Smythe, Raynor Barrington, 1880-1968

Reference: qMS-1849

Description: Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by men of Anzac, for the benefit of Patriotic Funds connected with the A & NZAC Contains the autographs of General Birdwood, General Godley, and of all the officers of the Headquarters Staff of the Anzac Corps Other Titles - The Anzac book Quantity: 1 volume(s) (169 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter (with ms annotations) (29 cm; maroon cloth) Contains illustrations

Date: 4 Aug 1914-Aug 1915

By: Malone, William George, 1859-1915

Reference: MS-Papers-2198

Description: Detailed diary includes comments on troops and tactics. Also appreciations from General Godley, Field Marshall Birdwood, and an anonymous hand. Lieut Colonel, 1st Wellington Battalion, sailed for Egypt, 1914, fought at Suez, 1915, killed at Chunuk Bair, Aug 1915 Quantity: 3 folder(s) (217 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: This photocopy was provided to Mr Norman Morris of the New Zealand High Commission in London in 1980 by Mrs Massey-Stewart. The original typescript, which she kept, had belonged to her late husband, Hugh Stewart, historian of the NZEF in France (Norman Morris to Alexander Turnbull Library, 6 May 1980, 2/9/1)

Date: Oct 1914-Aug 1915, Dec 1914-Jul 1915 (192-?)

By: Rhodes, Arthur Tahu Gravenor (Capt), 1893-1947

Reference: qMS-1690-1691

Description: Personal diary (`Vol 2') of NZEF includes voyage, landing at Anzac Cove, May 1915, and the Battle of Sari Bair, Aug 1915 ADC diary (`Vol 4') of official duties and military events includes transcript of `The Dardenelles driveller' (17 May 1915) Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - The Dardanelles driveller Captain Rhodes was ADC to General Sir Alexander Godley, commander 1st NZEF, from 1914-1916 Quantity: 2 volume(s) (164, 99 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts (carbon copies) (34 cm; dark green rexine)

Date: 09 June 2006 - 09 Jun 2006

Reference: OHColl-0916-01

Description: Dr Chris Pugsley describes to Dave Small, Curator of the Cartographic Section, the significance of the annotations on a map used at Gallipoli by Major General Godley, Commander of a combined New Zealand and Australian Division during the Gallipoli Campaign, World War I. The type of annotations indicate that it was a working command map. The discussion took place in the Cartographic Section of Alexander Turnbull Library where the map is held. Relationship complexity - A digital copy of the map can be viewed in the National Library of New Zealand Catalogue under the title "Map of Gallipoli. Sheet 2." Click on the "Archived copy" to view the image. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016313 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 event(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available transcript of discussion OHA-8406.

Date: 1915

By: Yeoman and Barker (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1915-05

Description: Programme for an event held in Wellington Town Hall on 29 June 1915, when Kitty Doughty was crowned queen of a patriotic carnival. The crowning ceremony included an entrance procession, a song by Mina Caldow, the crowning by Mr H G Hill, a recitation by Hamilton Hodges; and participation by Mrs James Hannah, Mr R Leslie Jones, Mr Sydney Allright, Miss Glady Watkins, Mr Ch W Kerry, Mr Bernard F Page, Mr W J Meredith, Professor Owen Cardston. The words of the patriotic song "The soldier" are on the verso and dedicated by permission to Major-General Sir Alex Godly, KCMG, Commander of the NZEF. The recto has a border of art nouveau design. Date and place confirmed in article in Evening Post, 1915, Page 6 Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on both sides of flyer, 255 x 194 mm.

Date: 1 January 1916 - 31 December 1916

From: Jackson, Ynyr George, 1898-1961: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12292-2

Description: Diary for the year 1916 with entries dated from 1 January to 31 December. Printed at Nile Mission Press, 37 Sharia Manakh, Cairo. Diary commences with Jackson, a member of the Machine Gun Section of the Mounted Rifle Brigade, in Cairo. Describes visit to pyramids and the Sphinx in January. Late January trek in desert via Zeitoun and to Suez and Ismailiya. Visit and inspection of camp by Prince of Wales, accompanied by General Godley in March. Jackson went on to Port Said and from there back to the Dardanelles. Describes the camps and military action at Hill 70, better known as Scimitar Hill. Later in the year the diary describes action in the Sinai Desert and life at camp in Kantara [El Qantara], Egypt. The diary includes a number of items originally laid in on page dated Wednesday, 19 April 1916: including a "Twenty-Five Piastres" banknote of "National Bank of Egypt", dated 7 June 1918; a holograph note in ink by Jackson to accompany two newspaper clippings dated 1958 describing the discovery of a message in a bottle thrown overboard from the troopship 'Willochra' departing Wellington on 15 August 1915. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) single bound volume, a banknote, 2 newspaper clippings, and note on paper.. Physical Description: Diary bound in printed cloth, banknote, newspaper clippings, and holograph note in ink on paper.

Date: 1910-1918

From: Cooper, Catherine Isobel, 1903-1986: Collection

Reference: MSX-9658

Description: Autograph album of Elizabeth (Bessie) Hadfield, nee Tuckey. Features mounted clippings from letters and envelopes, including letterheads, crests, addresses, signatures, and some complete letters, notes, sketches, postcards, pressed botanical specimens, medal ribbons, and photographic prints. Includes: - Autograph, and registered letter from Karlsruhe, Germany, addressed to "Queen Sophie of Sweden". Sophia of Nassau (1836-1913) was Queen consort of Sweden. - Printed card with manuscript note of Miss Waldegrave, 4 Park Square, Regent's Park. - Engraved crest, and signature of Lord Radstock - Engraved crest of Bentinck, and note dated 2 May 1910. - Note by Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) on printed letterhead of Faraday House, dated 3 April 1910. - Note by Mina Hamilton on printed letterhead of Knoyle House, Salisbury, dated 4 April 1910. - Envelope addressed to Countess Haga, postmarked Munich 9 May 1910. - Note from Annette Liverpool, dated 2 July 1914 - Letter from Francis Redwood, dated Wellington, 13 May 1913. - Signature of Massey and printed letterhead 'Prime Minister's Office, Wellington' dated 16 July 1912. - Signature of Godley, and printed letterhead of Department of Defence, dated 15 August 1914. - Manuscript poem by E Quinn. - Various inscriptions by military personnel dated 1915-1916 - Botanical specimen mounted with note "From Hebron, Palestine, 1918". - Printed Christmas card from Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, dated Palestine, Xmas 1918. - Mounted photographic print of Trentham, 1915. - Mounted photographic print of memorial. - Postcard of "Star Amphitheatre, Balmoral, Sydney". - Photographic prints of military personnel, horses, including some named, and camp in Amria [Amiriyeh, Iran]. - Postcard of "Alexandria. - Garden and Monument to Nubar Pacha.", from Harold C Hall to Mrs E Hadfield in Wellington. - Two pieces of medal ribbon, Military Medal 1920 and 1914-15 Star awarded to J WIlkinson of Auckland Mounted Rifles. - Printed 1917 Christmas card from The Camel Corps - Postcard - "Season's Greetings from Colonel C E R Mackesy and Officers of the Auckland Mounted Rifles". - Postcard "Heliopolis - Panoramic view". - Printed card of 10th Battalion, Jack Marshall. - Photographic postcards titled "Zepp Wreckage Series A". - Letter on 'New Zealand Expeditionary Forces' printed letterhead paper dated 1918 to Mrs H S Hadfield in Marton from her son. Also includes various sketches and illustrations, and lists of signatures. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Album of autographs, photographs, sketches and ephemera, 18 x 17 cm, with some loose material laid in.

Date: 1915-1937

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-15

Description: Includes letters about Maori language, place names, tikanga, coats of arms, insertions for magazines like the New Zealand Railways' magazine, letters from the Gilby's College in Wellington wanting Stowell as a Maori teacher and letters about lessons to students; includes Maori songs and Maori history about Ngaruawahia in Waikato; includes references to the `Maori at Orakei' and `Rewi's defence at Orakau', also includes a letter outlining the impressions Maori soliders made in World War 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some with ms annotations) Processing information: Not all names have been indexed.

Date: 1905-1935

From: Ball, Jennifer, active 2003:Photographs relating to the Johnston and Bell families

Reference: PAColl-7815

Description: Photographs of Homewood, Karori, Wellington, and of Charles John Johnston, his family and their friends. There are also a number of images relating to Wanganui Collegiate School where C J Johnston's younest son, Octavius, went to school about 1906. Most of these are group photographs of the pupils, the school cadets and sports teams. Two show a rugby match between the Wanganui Collegiate first 15 and the Old Boys played during the Easter break, 1906. The photographs date from 1905 to 1908. The second album records the wedding of Caroline Margaret Featherston Johnston to Percy Warwick Blundell of the Evening Post (Wellington) newspaper family. This took place at "Taumaru", Lowry Bay, the home of Caroline Johnston's grandparents, Sir Francis and Lady Bell. The sequence of images shows the progress of the wedding from the bride and her father, Justice Harold Johnston, leaving the house to the guests at the reception. It provides a detailed view of that vanished institution; the "society wedding". The wedding took place on the 2nd of February 1935. Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies.

Date: 1916

From: [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from and to soldiers and other service personnel. 1914-1916].

By: New Zealand. Army. NZEF

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1916-01

Description: Front cover shows the New Zealand flag in colour, with title message. Inside spread shows at left the text: "The tide has turned; Kua timu te tai". From [Jim], New Zealand Expeditionary Force, to [Dorrie and Arthur] At right is a photograph entitled "Somewhere in France", with ink annotations indicating members of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade standing at the side of the road to watch the King, Gen[eral] Godley, And Gen[eral] Plumer. Printed as a Christmas greeting card for New Zealand Engineers soldiers in France to send home. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on Christmas greetings card. Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithograph on front and inside of card; two sheets folded to 100 x 150 mm, tied with brown cord.

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: PA1-o-471

Description: Album compiled by a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918. It contains views of New Zealand Expeditionary Force camps in England, the Grey Towers Hospital, Te Whare Puni club for New Zealand soldiers, Royal Bath Hospital (at Harrogate), Oatlands Park Hotel (in use as a convalescent hospital), Malta, Gallipoli (including the landing party, in the bivvies, Anzac Cove and Walker's Ridge) and Capetown. Activities at the various camps and convalescent hospitals included mending gear, playing two-up, skinning hares for dinner, playing bowls, snow-fights. Painted title page, on back of front cover had the following signature: "Harry Thos Peat". Album belonged to Mr Peat?, photographs taken by Mr Peat? Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering under a small stylised picture of landscape with windmill; 14.5 x 18.5 cm

Date: ca 1920

By: Zachariah, Joseph, 1867-1965

Reference: PAColl-4614

Description: Photograph of the New Zealand Club luncheon in Wellington. The names given are: Wheeler, M Myers, Webb, Pollock, Porfessor Picken, Aitchison, General Godley, Admiral Ross (USA), Admiral Sir G King-Hall, Luke, David McLaren Mayor of Wellington, P C Freeth editor of NZ Times (others not legible). Photographer was Zak. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1910-1922, 1915-1919

By: Hart, Leonard Mitchell, 1894-1973

Reference: MS-Papers-2157

Description: Family letters, chiefly on active service and one item of ephemera Source of title - Supplied title Sons of Samuel Hart, lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit, Somes Island and elsewhere. Leonard served with 5th Reinforcements, 1st Brigade, Otago Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli, and with 2nd Brigade in France; he was gassed in 1918. Adrian served in France, 1916-1919, as a farrier with 12th Reinforcements, N Z Field Engineers, No 2 Field Co. Quantity: 7 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and ephemera

Date: 1919

By: Moule, Douglas Thomas, active 1913-1968; New Zealand. Government Life Insurance Dept.

Reference: B-058-011

Description: Portraits of Generals Birdwood, Russell, Chaytor and Godley, surmounted by a portrait of King George V, against a background of British and New Zealand flags, ferns, kiwi, the New Zealand shield and medals allocated during the First World War. In the bottom half are the insignia of the different divisions, a list of the principal engagements, statistics and honours and decorations awarded.. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo mechanical reproduction (col) with letterpress, 546 x 406 mm

Date: 1959-1965

From: Wards, Ian McLean, 1920-2003 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11631-031

Description: Includes correspondence with editor, A H McLintock and drafts by Wards of entries on Sir D Cameron, Sir A Godley and Sir T Chute Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 7 Jun 1932

From: Malone family : Papers relating to William George Malone

Reference: MS-Papers-11408-06

Description: An appreciation of W G Malone written by General Sir Alexander Godley. It is dated 7 June 1932 and was written while Godley was serving as Governor of Gibraltar. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Autographed typescript

Date: 12 Mar-29 Jun 1916

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-14B

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.

Date: 10 Jun 1919, 1942-1943

Reference: MS-Papers-7599

Description: Comprises special general order issued by Sir Alexander J Godley to all ranks of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, just prior to the final demobilization the NZEF, 10 Jun 1919; and file of correspondence, circulars and other papers labelled `Civil Defence; Regional Commissioners' & District Controllers' memorandum file' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, duplicated material and printed matter