Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)

Date: 1914-1916

By: Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958; Orde-Lees, Hisako Hoya, active 1932-1962

Reference: MS-Group-2416

Description: Journal gives full account of the voyage from England to South Georgia, the loss of the Endurance in the pack ice, and life on Elephant Island during the wait for rescue. Lacks entries for 25 Jun 1915-8 Jan 1916. Many photographs. Material also includes photographs and newsclippings concerned with the early development of parachutes. Publication - The Orde Lees diaries have now been published - John Thomson `Elephant Island and beyond. The Life and diaries of Thomas Orde Lees', 2003. Orde Lees was seconded by the Admiralty to Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917. He was the motor expert and later store-keeper. Quantity: 13 folder(s). 6 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs with annotations, photographs and printed matter Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35cm; blue linen tie cases) Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Orde Lees, Wellington, 1962 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958: Photographs (PA-Group-01014). Includes drawings, diagrams and photographs Processing information: Archivists notes - qMS-1149-1153 were photocopied from originals held by Mrs Orde-Lees, of Wellington in 1962

Date: [2000-2004]

By: O'Neill, John, active 2004

Reference: MS-Papers-8120

Description: Information collected by O'Neill on Harry McNeish (McNish) including notes, letter and newspaper articles (all photocopies); includes attempt by family to gain a posthumous award for McNeish Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Dulwich College uses McNish as the preferred spelling of his name Accompanying material - Copy of letter from Dulwich College, 14 Sep 2004 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J O'Neill, per Dulwich College, Sep 2004

Date: 25 Jan 1915-10 Jan 1917

By: Wild, Henry Ernest, 1879-1918

Reference: MS-Papers-2407

Description: Diary based on Wild's field diaries kept as a member of the Ross Sea Party under Lieutenant Aeneas MacKintosh. Describe the laying of the Ross Sea and Beardmore Glacier food depots for Shackleton's proposed Trans-Antarctic expedition, after the Aurora was blown out to sea, May 1915. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (53 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 1916

By: Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

Reference: Micro-MS-0632

Description: Entries made while on Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 under Sir Ernest Shackleton. Includes diary of voyage of the `James Caird' from Elephant Island to South Georgia, 24 Apr-20 May 1916; diary relating to rescue of Elephant Island party, 16 Jun-25 Dec 1916; manuscript entitled `Shackleton's great boat journey', 1916. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (microfilm)

Date: 1916-1917

By: Weston, Shaler T, active 1916-1917

Reference: MS-Papers-5006

Description: Consists of three letters from Ernest Shackleton to Shaler Weston and a receipt for money lent by Weston. The letter dated 15 Dec 1916 accompanies the receipt also dated 15 Dec 1916 and acknowledges money lent by Weston, the receipt setting out the terms of repayment. The letter dated 22 Jan 1917 was written on board the `Aurora' in the Ross Sea and tells of the deaths of Mackintosh, Hayward and Smith. The third letter dated 5 March 1917 was written from Wellington, repays the loan, thanks Weston for his help and tells of the selling of Shackleton's ship. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Mr A S Helm, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1914-1919

By: Wheeler, C M (Mrs), active 1966

Reference: PAColl-0180

Description: Photographs taken during Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917. Collection also includes photographs of the Rhine and Cologne. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: Between 1914-1917

By: Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962; Orde-Lees, Hisako Hoya, active 1932-1962; Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958

Reference: PA-Group-01014

Description: Collection includes: Photographs, chiefly taken by Frank Hurley, but including some by Lees, during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Shows Sir Ernest Shackleton and party in Antarctica and Elephant Island, and after rescue by the Chilean Navy. Photographs of of the Ford factory, Seaview Road, Lower Hutt, during the Second World War. Two photographs show the women workers in the cateteria; one photograph is of army trucks lined up in front of the factory; two photographs show two types of army trucks assembled at the factory. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-20126 to 20161 Quantity: 35 b&w copy negative(s). 78 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives; Original photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958: Antarctic journal (MS-Group-2416) - Transfer information - From Manuscripts and Archives : MS-Papers-0405-01 : Journal..

Date: 2002-2003

By: Thomson, John Bell, 1931-

Reference: MS-Group-1226

Description: Comprises photocopies of: the original diary of Thomas Orde Lees, 28 Jun 1915-Jan 1916; Orde Lee's official Royal Marines service record; confidential reports of Orde Lees from Royal Naval College, 1895-1896. Publication - The book based on this research material has now been published - John Thomson `Elephant Island and beyond. The Life and diaries of Thomas Orde Lees', 2003. The photocopy of the diary was provided by Dartmouth College Library, New Hampshire, USA (Special Collections, Manuscript Stef. MSS/185). Source of title - Supplied Papers collected by John Thomson for his biography of Thomas Orde Lees `Elephant Island and beyond, the life and diaries of Thomas Orde Lees'. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (Photocopies) Transfers: From Photographic Archive -.

Date: 1914

Reference: qMS-0027

Description: Signed at Sydney by the crew of Shackleton's ship, the SY Aurora. Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (20 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (38 x 28 cm; blue buckram)

Date: 1909-1924

By: Tripp, Leonard Owen Howard, 1862-1957

Reference: MS-Papers-0095

Description: Inward and outward correspondence concerning Sir Ernest Shackleton. Much of it refers to his relationship with the Aurora Antarctic Relief Expedition, 1916-1917, and the mortgaging of the 'Aurora'. Some, but not all, correspondents' names have been indexed. Quantity: 10 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1914

By: Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

Reference: Micro-MS-0637

Description: Initial part of diary kept before and on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, under Sir Ernest Shackleton. Entries describe visit of Queen Alexandria and Dowager Empress of Russia on board, 16 July 1914. Contains day to day accounts of the expedition, lists of Weddell Sea party and sketches of animals and parts of the ship. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 65 frames).

Date: 1914-1916

By: Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

Reference: Micro-MS-0633

Description: Journal kept during Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antartic Expedition in the `Endurance' to the Weddell Sea, 1914-1916. The journal runs, with gaps, from 1 January 1915 to 18 May 1916. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (ca 200 frames). Physical Description: Holograph (microfilm)

By: Hurley, James Francis, 1885-1962

Reference: PAColl-5753

Description: Frank Hurley took all the images of Antarctica Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-098603 to 098685 Quantity: 83 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1915-1916

From: Jones, Arthur Godfrey Eton, 1914-2002: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3830

Description: Includes biography of Ernest Joyce, a brief biography of Orde Lees and a transcript of Lees' diary kept on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 Accompanying material - With a printed article `Frankie Wild's hut', by A G E Jones Relationship complexity - Library holds the original Ode-Lees diary held at MS-Papers-0405 Ernest Joyce took part in the Discovery Expedition 1901-1904, the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 and the Ross Sea party 1914-1917 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (15; 25 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts (some carbon copies) Provenance: Diary transcribed by A G E Jones in 1982, who also added the biography

Date: 1899-1932

By: Sawyer, Arthur John Hardacre, 1885-1932

Reference: MS-Group-1402

Description: Includes diaries 1917, 1924, 1929, letters and photographs relating to Arthur Sawyer's life as a wireless operator on land and sea, in NZ, Australia and the Pacific; his WW1 service in Australian forces, service notebook for Indian Army 1919-20; Mawson Expedition 1911-1913 on Macquarie Island; also in Papua New Guinea, Nauru and New Zealand; with certificates of service etc, and notebook on wireless operating matters, 1929 Quantity: 6 volume(s). 5 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Mr Newlands was given this collection by Mrs Green when helping to clear deceased estate of Mr John Green some time ago. Mrs Green has no knowledge of why Mr Green had them, but he was a member of the Wellington Radio Club. Mitchell Library holds Sawyer's diaries 1911-1916 together with several pages of notes about his time on Macquarie Island written in 1924 (MLMSS 383); accompanying the diaries are ca 35 photographs (Pic Acc 5491). Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to other sections from here - To Photographic Archive - 1 folder of photographs (PAColl-8910).

Date: 1914-1917

From: Joyce, Ernest E Mills, 1875-1940 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0217-01

Description: Comprises two notebooks, handwritten by Joyce. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 items). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 9 Dec 1914-13 May 1916 (1935)

By: McNeish, Harry, 1874-1930

Reference: MS-1390

Description: Includes letter by Shackleton, S[outh] Georgia, 16 May 1916 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (128 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ½ blue calf) Processing information: Access statement changed from "Partly restricted - Digital content available only in Katherine Mansfield Reading Room" to "Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original" on 26 October 2022.

Date: 9 Dec 1914-13 May 1916

By: McNeish, Harry, 1874-1930

Reference: MS-1389

Description: Diary accounts by McNeish of the 1914-1916 Trans-Antarctic expedition under the command of Ernest Shackleton. The diary records the departure of the `Endurance', the ship's imprisonment in pack ice in the Weddell Sea, its destruction, the ice and sea journey by the crew to Elephant Island, and the voyage by Shackleton, McNeish and three others to South Georgia in the whale boat `James Caird'. Last pages contain a holograph letter to McNeish from Shackleton, 16 May 1916, written on South Georgia. Note that a leaf or leaves are missing (and were when the item arrived at the Library). The missing portion begins part way through the 7 April 1916 entry through to the first part of the 16 April 1916 entry. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Name McNeish is as on spine. This was the name he was known by at the time of his death. However, the main entry is McNish which was his original name, and the name he was known by during his Antarctic expeditions. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (10 cm; ¼ maroon morocco, brown cloth folder)

Date: 1914-1917

From: Thomson, John Bell, 1931- :Photographs associated with Thomas Orde Hans Lees (1877-1958)

Reference: PAColl-7718-2

Description: Copy negative of map of route taken by Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1914-1917

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-0282-1/2-G

Description: Unidentified man with a dog, probably on the ship `Endurance', during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Photograph possibly taken by James Francis Hurley. From box containing EP-0280 to 0296 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative