World War 1939-1945 official negatives - WH Series

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0461-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. Wharf operating unit unloading a Liberty ship at a port in New Caledonia [during World War 2]. Unloading party from a base camp working the hold. Canteen goods are being taken out." Official war photograph taken between circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-303, page 36 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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-0480

Description: Unidentified wounded New Zealand soldier of the 30th Infantry Battalion, 3rd New Zealand Division, waiting to be taken off Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1939-1945. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 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: WH-0162-a-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. A New Zealand brigade moves from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella [Solomon Islands]. Voting conducted on board an LST. The polling booth. Seated (2nd & 3rd from left) are the polling officers: Major G B Gibbons (Wgtn) and Major H F Allan (Nelson). Official war photograph taken 1943. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 82 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0069-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. Life in an infantry camp [in New Caledonia, during World War 2]. A quiet afternoon. From left, Pte N A J Newman (Masterton), Pte J H R Anderson (Wanganui), Pte J F Pont (Tuatapere), Pte M S Fenwick (New Plymouth)." Official war photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 47 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0207-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. Troops of 3 (NZ) Division in Vella Lavella. Armed Japanese coastal barge captured by men of South Island battalion [during World War 2]." Official war photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 99 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: February 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: WH-0536-F

Description: Soldiers of the 208 Light Anti Aircraft Battery grouped around their gun on Nissan Island. Photographed by an unknown photographer in February 1944. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - NZEF IP. Activities of New Zealand troops on Nissan Island. B 2119. Light Ack Ack personnel photographed at Nissan. This gun and guncrew, while stationed at Treasury, were credited with a Jap plane. Official war photograph. This gun and guncrew were credited with the only Japanese plane shot down on Mono Island. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 12.3 x 10 cm Transfers: A photographic print with digitised access copy is held at Library reference PAColl-5547-031..

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0472-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF IP [New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific]. NZ troops embark for commando raid in the Pacific. The landing craft about to be hauled up on davits when embarkation is complete." Official war photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-303, page 42 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0194-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Troops of 3 (NZ) Division in Vella Lavella [during World War 2]. Artillery pieces await loading on landing craft, as elements of the force prepare to move to attack the Japanese in another part of the island." Official war photograph, taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 94 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: ca 1943-1945

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-0784-F

Description: Original caption reads: "NZEF [New Zealand Expeditionary Force]. Daily scenes in Pacific Island camp sites occupied by [World War 2] NZ troops. Anti-mosquito campaign: Likely breeding places are sprayed from time to time to cope with fever carrying mosquitoes. Here is A de Roo (Ch-ch) smothering wayside pools." Official war photograph taken circa 1943-1945. Photographer unidentified. Identified from original print of this negative in album PA1-q-302, page 16 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [between 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-0670-F

Description: Royal New Zealand Navy gun crew on board ship in the Pacific during World II. Photograph taken between 1939-1945 by an unidentified official photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative