Mortars (Ordnance)

Date: 1915 - 1918

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Eggers / Taylor. 1905-1970s].

By: Daily mail (London, England)

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-8-038-btm

Description: Shows four soliders loading a mortar into place in preparation for firing. Other Titles - "Tommy's" nickname for a trench mortar is a "Flying pig", and this picture shows some of our men loading one of these useful useful weapons. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph 89 x 140 mm.

Date: 1879 - 1832 - 1880

From: Hodgkins family including William Mathew Hodgkins :[Sketchbook and scrapbook, 1880s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-038-q-2-002

Description: A small mortar or cannon on a wheeled carriage, standing on a wooden platform, possibly seen by the artist on a visit to New Plymouth in 1879. There is a rough indication of trees beyond the cannon The text may be a transcription of text in Maori and English below the cannon depicted. There appear to be words written on a plaque beneath the mouth of the cannon. The cannon, known as Dicky Barrett, was first located in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, from 1875. Other Titles - Moturoa Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - text in pencil in the hand of W M Hodgkins Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey sketchbook page, 230 x 142 mm

Date: 1970 - 1989

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

Reference: Eph-B-SMITH-Peace

Description: Includes material from the New Zealand Spartacist League, the Pacific Institute of Resource Management, Citizens for the Demilitarisation of Harewood, the World Peace Council, the Wellington Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Wellington Peace Forum, the New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies, Peace Movement Aotearoa, NZ Council for World Peace (Wellington Committee), Beyond ANZUS Conference, Peaceful Play Campaign, Campaign Against Landmines (CALM), the First Earth Run. Includes a promotional booklet about a performance of "Night on Bald Mountain", by Liong Xi and Faye Tohbyn (2 copies) Also includes a flyer protesting against the export from New Zealand of the MERE (Mortar Elevation and Ranging Equipment) mortar calculator, which could be used overseas for counter-insurgency, particularly against "Philippine peasants". MERE (Mortar Elevation and Ranging Equipment) was developed by the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in conjunction with the New Zealand Army and was intended for use with the L16A1/A2 81 mm mortar, to control its firing. Wormald Vigilant Ltd won the contract to produce the item, which was intended to be exported to ASEAN countries, in about 1982.ker was one of the first to voice a protest over this, and his view was endorsed by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Philippines Solidarity Network (Some information from http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Infantry-Weapons/MERE-mortar-fire-control-computer-New-Zealand.html, retrieved 21 November 2011). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

Date: between 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-f-107-06-5

Description: Members of the Tonga Defence Force of 2nd NZEF (Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force), training with a 2" mortar in Tonga. Photograph taken between 1943-1944. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - 2" Mortar Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7.2 x 10.2 cm, mounted on album page 41.9 x 27 cm

Date: 1914 - 1920 - 1918 - 1929

From: Der Weltkrieg: Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Dresden A 1 [Cigarette card album. 1920-1935?]

Reference: Eph-F-WAR-WI-1920s-01-45

Description: Album page shows six picture cards headed '1917: Neue Ausbildung und neue Waffen' [1917 - New training and new weapons], with a short paragraph of text below each: 163: 'Minenwerfer' [Mine launcher] 164: 'Granatwerfer' [Mortar] 165: 'Flammenwerfer' [Flame-thrower] 166: 'Leichte Funkstation' [Lightweight radio station] 167: 'Künstlicher Nebel' [Artificial fog] 168: 'Rauchfackel' [Smoke flare]. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Six coloured photolithographs, each 50 x 64 mm, on page with letterpress text, 257 x 345 mm.

Date: During World War II

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0419

Description: Mortar bombs? at the Government Film Studios (Wellington?) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 15 December 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-07919-F

Description: NZ mortar crew near Faenza, Italy, preparing ammunition within 1000 yards of the enemy. Their quarters are part of an Italian farmhouse. Photograph taken by George Kaye, on the 15th of December 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35mm film negative

Date: 15 December 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-07918-F

Description: NZ mortar position near Faenza, Italy. Another bomb had just been fired into enemy positions less than 1000 yards away. Photograph taken by George Kaye on the 15th of December 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35mm film negative

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013799-G

Description: Members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the last front line before Le Quesnoy. Photographed some time in 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print in album PA1-f-092 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1309 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches Finding Aids: Print in Photograph Archive in war History Album PA1-f-092, print number H1308..

Date: [between 1939-1945]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-0437

Description: Women assembling mortar shells, Swan Electric Company, Dixon Street, Wellington. Photograph taken between 1939-1945 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Dixon Street location from description of PAColl-0783-2-0435. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.1 x 16.5 cm

Date: 15 Apr 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013121-G

Description: Looking down onto a New Zealand trench mortar battery on the Somme near Colincamps in World War I. Shows soldiers behind the gun in its timber reinforced and sandbagged emplacement. Photograph taken 15 April 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - H503 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Nov 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-08295-F

Description: German soldiers with a trench mortar, in Libya, November 1941. Taken by an unidentified German photographer. Note on back of file print reads "Captured German film... handed in by Sgt Burge". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1899-1902

From: Wallace, G R, fl 1959 :Photographs of the South African War

Reference: PAColl-6571-01

Description: Cohorn mortar with a line of unidentified men (possibly Boer Republic fighters) behind it, near Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa. Taken between 1899 and 1902 by J E Middlebrook of Durban. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Q.624; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Mortar by Ladysmith; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Copyright Middlebrook Durban; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Mortier kanon; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - J Van Hoeden Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.8 x 19.6 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: WH-0556

Description: World War 2 New Zealand soldiers with a 3 inch mortar in action during jungle training, Mono Island, Solomon Islands. Taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Aug 1915

From: Hampton, W A, fl 1915 :Copy of a photograph album relating to World War I

Reference: 1/2-168813-F

Description: Soldiers with captured weapons, Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, photographed August 1915 by Sergeant W A Hampton. Shows a Vickers machine gun and a mortar. Inscriptions: Underneath original photograph in album: "A few captures during August 1915" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 21 Oct 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013682-G

Description: A fitter getting New Zealand 6" trench mortars ready for firing at Beauvois, France, during World War I. The gun casings remain on the carriages that are parked nearby. Photograph taken 21 October 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1126 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013800-G

Description: Members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the support line before Le Quesnoy. Photographed some time in 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - Print in album PA1-f-092 Caption from album: "NZ Support Line near Le Quesnoy" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1310 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches Finding Aids: Print in Photograph Archive in war History Album PA1-f-092, print number H1310..

Date: 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013798-G

Description: Members of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at the front in Stokes Trench, operating a mortar. Photographed some time in 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Franck Bruyere, a citizen of Le Quesnoy, identified this as on the road beteen Le Quesnoy and Beaudignies. He also stated that it was at a place called "Linden."May 2008. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H1308 The location is the embanked road between Le Quesnoy and Beaudignies, about three km from Le Quesnoy, at a place locally known as "linden" (or "tilleul"in French). A house nearby had a linden or lime tree in it's garden. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 16 x 12 cm Finding Aids: Print in Photograph Archive in war History Album PA1-f-092, print number H1308..

Date: 8 Sep 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013578-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers with a light trench mortar gun on a mule-drawn cart at the time when trench mortars became a mobile arm of the Division's forces in France. Photograph taken 8 September 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Caption - "Necessity is the mother of invention. To enable us to keep contact with the enemy the trench mortars have been made a mobile arm." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Hl011 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: ca 22 Jan 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

Reference: DA-02839-F

Description: Open desert in the Sirte area, Libya, during World War 2, showing an enemy mortar exploding in front of advancing New Zealand soldiers who are crawling on their stomachs. Photograph taken circa 22 January 1943 by an unidentified official photographer. Other - Inscription below image unreadable Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative