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Bass, Elsa, fl 1916 :Photographs relating to Percy James William Simmons' service in Wo...
Date: 1916-1917
By: Grant, Elsa Gladys, 1891-1981; Kinsella, Alison, active 2004
Reference: PA1-o-1211
Description: Album of photographs taken by Percy James William Simmons of the 15th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917. Includes scenes on the troop ship 'Ulimaroa' en route to Plymouth, Sling Camp and surrounding villages, Messines, and London and Edinburgh on leave. Percy Simmons, son of Edgar and Harriet Simmons of Taumarunui, was engaged to Elsa Bass, a teacher. He sent the photographs to her until his death in action in France, on 8 October 1918, aged 29 years. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth covered album 14.6 x 18.5 containing 67 photographs Provenance: Elsa Bass was the mother of the donor.
Curtis family : Papers
Date: 1915-1918
By: Curtis family
Reference: MS-Papers-9234
Description: Collection comprises World War One letters from Michael Curtis in Egypt back to his family in Dannevirke. These letters describe his time in Egypt, visiting the pyramids and Cairo. Comments on fellow soldiers from Dannervirke that he has met including sons from the Allardice family. Describes living conditions at camp, and comments on periods when he has been recovering from battle wounds. Also includes further letters from or to other Curtis family members and ephemera concerning Michael Curtis' death. Source of title - Supplied by Library Papers concern Sergeant Michael Curtis who served with the Wellington Mounted Rifles in World War One, dying from wounds in 1917. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss & printed matter
Hansen family : Papers
Date: 1880-1959, 1962, 1964, 16 Mar 1918, 6 Feb 1925, 17 Apr-27 Sep 1937
By: Hansen family; Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014
Reference: MS-Group-0887
Description: Estate papers of W F Hansen and his father Anders. These include correspondence, diaries, autograph books, insurance papers, accounts, property papers, papers re British & Continental Film Company Ltd, 1920s. The diaries of Elizabeth Hansen, 1928-1932, 1954-1959, 1962, 1964, contain brief daily entries describing her domestic activities, weather conditions, involvement in community work and the Methodist Church. The early diaries were kept while the Hansens were in Featherston (the period immediately following their marriage). From 1954, after Fred Hansen died, Elizabeth lived at Masterton. Included in some of the diaries are newspaper clippings which report on church and community affairs. Contains letters by Anne Hansen aboard the `Rangitata', in England and Ireland to Fred and Lizzie Hansen in Masterton, New Zealand. Anne describes her daily life and travel and discusses family matters. Also contains a letter from Lena Cook (nee Hansen) while on holiday in Melbourne and a letter from an ex-soldier Elyabill Harrold to Fred Hansen following Fred's return from World War One. See ATL-Group-00334 for photographic material relating to the Hansen family. William Frederick Hansen's father, Anders Hansen was a lighthouse keeper. Fred Hansen was born at Cape Saunders, Westport. He was a tunneller in World War One. Elizabeth and Fred Hansen lived at Featherston and later moved to Masterton where Fred died in 1953. Mrs Eileen Tiller (née Hansen) is the niece of Mrs and Mrs Hansen. Quantity: 32 volume(s). 9 folder(s). 0.71 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Eileen Tiller is the granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Processing information: Twenty diaries arrived in the Photographic Archive and were separated from the photographic material as was the practice at the time.
Mackie album 4: From the war in France and leave in Paris to New Zealand via Panama
Date: 1916-1918
From: Martin, W W :World War One albums of Mr Laurie C Mackie
Reference: PA1-o-311
Description: Views of Paris and some of its notable buildings; places on the battlefields of France; soldiers; the return trip to New Zealand via Panama and the Panama Canal; Views of places, friends and family in New Zealand 1/2-090821 to 090900 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured red cloth cover, edged with impressed line. Entitled `From my camera', impressed in cursive style, printed in white, on top left hand corner of front cover; 25 x 30 cm
Burrowes, Stanley Gadfield Aglionby, 1891-1968 :Photograph album, negatives, negative a...
Date: 1915-1920
By: Burrowes, Stanley Gadfield Aglionby, 1891-1968
Reference: PA-Group-00863
Description: One photograph album and negatives taken by Stanley Gadfield Aglionby Burrowes between 1915 and about 1920. Most of the images relate to World War I in Egypt and the Middle East where Burrowes served with the Wellington Mounted Rifles. Accompanying negatives are of the Middle East but also of Hawera, where Burrowes lived before enlisting, and moved back to after his return. These include general overviews of the town, the park, rotunda and water tower and photos of his family, including Emma Elizabeth Jones, who he married in 1920. Also includes: one leather bound album with pages containing notes by Burrowes about the negatives (since removed for storage), and a medal (1914-1915 Star) presented posthumously to Edwin Fitzherbert (Bertie) Burrowes. Accompanying information - Donor has digitised some of images which are located at http://www.burrowes.org/FamilyTree/WMR/ Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 101 b&w original negative(s) film. 1 medal (1914-1915 Star). Physical Description: Photograph album and film negatives, and a metal medal Provenance: Donor is the grandson of Stanley G A Burrowes.
Le Quesne, Fred, fl 1914-1960 :Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Z...
Date: 1914-1960
By: Le Quesne, Fred, active 1914-1960; Hubbard, Alastar, active 2006
Reference: PAColl-8828
Description: Photograph album which includes photographs of World War 1 soldiers, women, English towns and countryside, and New Zealand coastal ships.. Soldiers include a group taken in a paddock during a break on the way to Greytown, another in the grounds of a hospital or park in England, and individual soldier portraits. Women's portraits appear throughout the album. One appears more often than the others. Her name is Hepsey Egerton, an English woman whoes married name was Dalkin. Two packets of photographs sent by her to Fred Le Quesne in about the 1980s, came loose in the album. Postcards of English towns include Gnosall, Stafford, Ross, Monmouth, and Great Malvern. The New Zealand shipping is mainly pictures of ketches, scows, some other sailing ships, and views of ships at unidentified ports. Other ships are passenger liners of the 1930s period, and iron hulled sailing ships, all photomechanical prints mostly from photographs by J H Kinnear. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-112459-F to 1/2-112466-F, and 35mm-82822 to 35mm-82823. Quantity: 1 album(s). Transfers: Transfer information - From Published Collections.
Robinson family : Leonard (Jack) Robinson's photographs relating to World War Two
Date: 1939-1943
From: Robinson family: Papers relating to World War One and World War Two
By: Robinson, Leonard Rennell James, 1919-2000
Reference: PAColl-8746
Description: Comprises photographs taken and collected by Leonard Rennell James Robinson who took part in World War Two in the Middle East Force. Includes photographs of army personnel in New Zealand in 1939; on the "Aquitania" about to leave for Britain; other transports which they joined in convoy which include the "Queen Mary," the "Empress of Canada," the "Empress of Japan," and the "Andes;" ports of call at Cape Town and Sierra Leone, and a view of the transports entering the Clyde at the end of their journey. A few images show a group of soldiers in camp at Aldershot, and ambulance training on the Kent Coast. Four images show the vapour trails of fighter planes in the sky over England. War in the desert is recorded by images of an ambulance being loaded; motor vehicles on a desert highway; an encampment; a scorpion; unexploded bombs in the sand; Italian prisoners of war; wrecked German tanks and aircraft; dead Germans; cemeteries in the desert. Another group relate to a camp at Helwan and a military hospital; Robinson and friends in camp and on leave; rain in the desert, and an air raid over Alexandria. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1113, Robinson family papers.
Photographs of New Zealand, including Frasertown and Waihi
Date: ca 1885-ca 1925
From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-0279-1
Description: Photographs of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, World War, 1914-1918; New Zealand scenery and Truby King with Plunket Society Presidents. Quantity: 10 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Old, Janet Haldane, 1928-2003:Photographs
Date: 17 May, 1934, ca1890
By: Old, Janet Haldane, 1928-2003; Eltham Historical Society
Reference: PAColl-1212
Description: Three prints of Eltham Jubilee, 17 May 1934, one print of Mountain Road, Eltham, ca 1890, photograph of Minnie Jeffrey and photograph of a World War I soldier and Red Cross Nurse Arrangement: F165785 1/2, F165883 1/2 - F165884 1/2 Quantity: 17 photocopy/ies and. 3 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.
Creator unknown :Photographs relating to New Zealand's involvement in World War I
Date: 1909-1919
Reference: PAColl-7879
Description: Albums containing postcards relating to the service of New Zealanders in World War One. Consists mostly of studio portraits of soldiers taken in New Zealand and overseas and in military camps, but also includes several photographs of sailors taken ca 1910. Many of the postcards have notes or letters written on the reverse. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Ring binder albums 35 x 33 cm
Quartermain album 1
Date: [Between 1916 and 1919]
By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973
Reference: PA1-o-425
Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Leslie Bowden Quartermain during his time in the New Zealand Medical Corps, World War I. Most of the men photographed are named only with Christian names, surnames or nicknames. The first sequence shows various military camps, including the training depot set up at the Awapuni Racecourse for the Medical Corps. There they were trained in specialist medical work, and also in basic infantry training and discipline. The following sequences were taken en route to Europe, with stops at Fremantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Dakar. The arrival in England gives views in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire where the men were quartered before travelling to France. Two show the village of Lewknor, the ancestral home of the Quartermain family; and several show the royal review of Australian and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. Other views were taken on leave from France; and with the army of occupation in Cologne, before the voyage home on the ship Kia Ora, through the Panama Canal. The final photograph is a group portrait with Leslie Bowden Quartermain in military uniform seated in the middle of a large group, probably Quartermain family, taken in 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled "Photographs"; 21.5 x 17.5 cm