Neil, James Hardie, -1955

Date: [1942]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-220

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; includes a number of letters of introduction relating to a visit of Walter Nash to the United States; some contacts replied Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera up to quarto size relating to World War I. 1914-1919]

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-1917-03

Description: Cover shows a Pierrot in a tutu and clown hat, sitting on a pedestal carved with Maori motifs. The pierrot looks down at a kiwi wearing a lemon-squeezer hat. There is a fern leaf at top left. Programme inside lists 12 items by "The Kiwis", and seven orchestral items. The back cover lists the names of the Pierrots and the Orchestra, as well as the directors and support members. An extract from the safety rules for such performances is shown at the bottom of the back page. Pierrots included: Lieut D A Kenny, Sgt W E McKinlay, Cpl R S Moloney, Cpl F Nation, Cpl H G Carr, Pte E Lymer, Spr G L Lyttelton, Dvr C S Nelson (Columbine), Dvr C Richardson, Pte J P Le Comte, Pte A G Green, Pte C H Tidy, Spr T Trezise (Harlequin). The Orchestra included: Sgt C T Cimono, Cpl G G Jackson, Cpl N L Martin, Cpl R J Booth, Pte F J Lound, Pte L Probert, Pte S J Anderson, Pte B O Peterson, Pte L S Poore, Pte C Howard, Pte G Broadley, Pte W P Dimery, Pte R Goodison, Pte W A King, Pte H A Lange, Pte T N Neighbours, Pte C White, Pte H V Cross, Pte H N Wright. Director was Lt Colonel J Hardie Neil; managing director Lieut G R Hutchinson; musical director D A Kenny; stage manager and producer Spr Theodore Trezise; scenery by Sgt N Isaac; costumes and wigs by Clarkson (London). Separately housed - not included in folder for group Eph-B-WAR-WI-1914/1919 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on pages of folded pamphlet, each page 255 x 190 mm. Provenance: Purchased at NZ Online Book Auctions, July 2006.

Date: [1943]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-225

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1938-1940

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-205

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

Date: 1939

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-201

Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Donald B [?] Rowe, Kopane, re the Rongotea committee Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1943]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1785-224

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; includes a number of inward and outward communications relating to Coates's death in May Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 27 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013543-G

Description: The German medical officer, Lt Schnelling of the 14th Bavarian Regiment, who was detailed to attend the German wounded and who came to a New Zealand Ambulance near the front line. Schnelling, left, is pictured with Colonel J. Hardie Neil and Major H M Goldstein. Photograph taken near Bapaume, France, 27 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Caption - "So many more German wounded came into a New Zealand Ambulance that a Bavarian Medical Officer was detailed to attend to his compatriots." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H974 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1917

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

Reference: 1/2-012807-G

Description: Brigadier General Herbert Hart, on horseback on left, and Colonel Francis Bernard Sykes, also mounted on right, speaking to Colonel Hardie Neil who stands with his back to the camera. Photograph taken 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H96 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 27 Aug 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-013549-G

Description: A German medical officer, identified as Lt Schnelling of the 14th Bavarian Regiment, watching the removal of a wounded soldier at a New Zealand Field Ambulance near Bapaume in World War I. Colonel J Hardie Neil stands beside Schnelling. Ambulances wait in the background. Photograph taken 27 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H980 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches