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Merchant navy convoy 5
Date: February - June 1919
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys
Reference: PA1-o-1395
Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm
A soldier's experience of the Gallipoli campaign, April to September 1915
Date: 1915
From: Denniston, George Gordon, 1885-1958 :Photograph albums relating to World War I including the Gallipoli campaign
Reference: PA1-o-862
Description: Album of photographs compiled by George Gordon Denniston illustrating a soldier's experience of of the Gallipoli campaign, April to September 1915. Photographer(s) unidentified. Album covers the period when Denniston left New Zealand in April 1915 for Egypt, and his time in a military camp there on the outskirts of Alexandria, from where, it seems, he left for Gallipoli. At the begining there are two photographs of the Samoan Expeditionary Force returning to New Zealand. The rest show soldiers preparing to leave and scenes on board ship which include stabled horses being fed en route, and dead ones being dropped overboard. Shipboard life and activities are well documented. There are many photos of fellow soldiers and some of the Asian crewmen. Ships and islands seen while passing through the Red Sea are depicted. Also some views of streets and people in Suez. Finally Alexandria and camp life. Over half the album is taken up with life and events at the military camp at Sidi Bishr which seems to have been situated near one of the suburban outskirts of Alexandria. This experience has been recorded in some detail, and includes social visits from women, views of French cavalry exercises, care and maintenance of the horses, native funerals and camp life in general. The last photograph inthe album shows a gun in action at Gallipoli. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).