Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1913

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. - Features three pictures under the heading "1st Wedding in the NZ ANS [New Zealand Army Nursing Service] - Cairo", taken at the wedding of Nurse Mildred Jane Ellis and Lieutenant Alexander Edward Wrottesley Salt at Cairo, 21 May 1916. - Includes photographs taken in Egypt circa 1915-1916 showing gate of New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, military personnel posing with camels at the pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, temple ruins and pillars at Luxor, group portrait of Egyptian women, and hospital train in Alexandria. Other images show the sultan's palace, the sultan's guard, a swing bridge over a canal in Barrage Gardens, the river Nile, and the citadel of Cairo. - Images from England feature Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, also the Rufus Stone and Compton Arms Hotel, in New Forest. Photographs taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, show interior views showing hospital wards, building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. - Scotland is featured in images taken at Edinburgh, Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, and at Loch Lomond. - From New Zealand there are photographs of a parade of Reinforcements at Trentham. - Australian scenes include troops marching past Dog Rock in Albany, Western Australia. - Also includes image of a Canadian Women's Motor Ambulance and the Cunard Line ship RMS 'Aquitania'. - A series of images of Gallipoli probably not taken by Newell. Arrangement: Album originally received with eight loose prints and greeting card enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: Manufactured by the Heinn Co. Milwaukee, Wis[consin] 0663), black leather binding with title, 'Jaunts Abroad', in gilt lettering on cover, black pages with plain paper interleaving, 18 x 30 cm.

Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1914

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. Album contains images showing street scenes in London, including double-decker buses, penguins in a zoo, prominent buildings, bridges, monuments, and "The Old Curiosity Shop immortalized by Charles Dickens". Commercial photographic prints include "The Old Tree, Brockenhurst" by Davis, and "Balmer Lawn In Winter", "The Grand Hotel, Lyndhurst", "The Medical Hockey Team", "The Hall Balmer Lawn Xmas 1917", "The Avenue Bramshaw Wood" by Davis, "The Dining Hall", and "No 3 Ward". Photographs probably taken from a coastal vantage point show naval vessels at sea, while indoor scenes taken at the military hospital feature Christmas festivities with decorations including "Kia Ora NZ" over fireplace, and "God Save the King" over the staircase at Balmer Lawn. Includes some postcards from Cairo and other real photo postcards mounted in album. Cairo images show mosque door, the mosque el Ghoree, the fair, Moolid al Ahmadee, and the citadel of Cairo. Arrangement: Album originally received with one loose print enclosed - this is now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: The Columbia Album No. S 1457 W. Johnson & Sons, Makers, London), green bookcloth binding with 'Photographs' in gilt lettering on cover, 50 leaves of green paper, 15.5 x 24 cm.

Date: [ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1917

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in England during World War One, taken circa 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. Album contains images taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, and show building interiors, exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. Includes images of potatoe patch at sisters home, Brockenhurst, manor garden Brockenhurst, group portrait of patients wounded in Somme. Also includes photographs of Buckingham Palace and houses of parliament at Westminster. Other images feature military personnel in a rowing boat on a pond, geese, and a performing monkey. Arrangement: Album originally received with two loose prints enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled Brights Ltd Bournemouth), 12 leaves, brown bookcloth binding, 16 x 22 cm.

Date: 9 Jul 1917

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1916

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in England during World War One, taken circa 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. Album of images taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, showing building interiors and exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. A few feature Nurse Dibble. Captions make reference to the following names and subjects - Lieutenant Cornthwaite, Private Brown, Copper, Philips, and Reynolds. Female subjects include nurses Sister Lucy Mary Lea, Elvie Jane Kidd, Lyna Newell, and Elfrida Anne Parkinson. Also includes images of a flock of geese grazing. Front pastedown of album inscribed "L. Newell, Brockenhurst, Hants, England, 9-7-17" [Hants is an abbreviation for Hampshire]. Arrangement: Album originally received with one loose print enclosed - this is now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled Brights Ltd Bournemouth), 5 leaves, bound in brown bookcloth, 21 x 15 cm.

Date: [ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1915

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in England during World War One, taken in circa 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. Album contains images taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, and show building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. Also includes interior views. Includes images of scenery in England, portrait of a soldier leading a horse in Cairo, military personnel at Balmer Lawn, a series of four images showing a "mishap to aeroplane", with crowd inspecting a biplane. Images taken at New Forest show nurses Elfrida Anne Parkinson, Elvie Jane Kidd, and Newell, and at Rufus Stone in the New Forest, including image of Rufus Stone memorial. Numerous images of patients. Countryside scenes with snow and photographs taken at Balmer Lawn. Arrangement: Album originally received with two loose prints and a newsclipping enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled Brights Ltd Bournmouth), 19 leaves, bound in brown bookcloth, 20.5 x 15 cm.

Date: [ca 1914 - ca 1956]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PAColl-10385

Description: Collection of sixteen loose photographic prints, one portrait clipped from an illustrated newspaper and one greeting card originally laid in photograph albums from the same collection, mostly from the period of World War One, by unknown photographers, dated circa 1914 to 1956. Includes the following items: - Group portrait including Lyna Todd Newell from the time when she worked as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War, 1914-1918, showing her together with a group of military officers and two other nurses, by an unidentified photographer. - Portrait of Newell together with her husband 'Tiny' Dibble, taken sometime between the time of her marriage in 1920 and her husband's death in 1956, by 'The Studio de Luxe' in Kaikohe. Colection of eight images originally found with album PA1-o-1913, including: - Group portrait "Staff Balmer Lawn Sect[ion] No 1 NZ G[eneral] H[ospital]" - Building portrait in winter with snow, captioned "Snow in England where the Village people told us on arrival here it never snows here". - Group portrait of Newell and others, inscribed "[Newell] I am the lady with the white cap. Taken on road in front of our hospital". - four uncaptioned images showing a seascape, two featuring horses, and one with a view of the grounds around a building most likely taken from the vantage point of an upstairs window. - Portrait of a couple stamped "Northland Photography Whangarei" on reverse. - Also includes greeting card with the title "Best wishes for Christmas". Image originally with album PA1-o-1914 showing four male subjects wearing hats, with three in suits and one in uniform against a backdrop of palm trees. Images originally with album PA1-o-1915, including two portraits of a child dated 14 December 1916, and one newsclipping portrait of "Trooper S Maris Clark, 3rd Auckland Squadron, Killed in Action", from supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 9 September 1915, page 38. Image originally with album PA1-o-1916, portrait of a young man in military uniform, inscribed "To Mrs Dibble from Bed". Images originally with album PA1-o-1917, including photograph of a horse, and a portrait of a woman standing in an archway together with five children. Arrangement: Collection of loose photographic prints and ephemera items originally laid in pages of five photograph albums. Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera - newsclipping. 1 greeting card. Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints, newsclipping, and greeting card