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Soldiers from the 18th Royal Irish Regiment at Rutland Stockade, Wanganui
Date: [ca late 1860s]
From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district
Reference: 1/1-000095-G
Description: Soldiers from the A and C companies of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment on parade at the Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, circa late 1860s. The soldiers wear blue campaign dress. A goat, the regimental mascot, is on the left. Photograph taken by William James Harding. (Information for this caption is from the book `The Colonial New Zealand Wars' by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, 1986, page 144) The soldiers in this image were formerly identified as belonging to the 57th Regiment. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Wanganui, showing blockhouses from the sandhills. [...
Date: 1865
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-039
Description: View along the north shoreline of the Whanganui River, with the Rutland Stockade (with two fortresses and other buildings within the perimeter fence]. Military tents dot the slopes of the nearer hills, and the spire of St Peter's Church can be seen, along with the buildings along the shoreline. In the right foreground, a Maori man in a cloak with a taiaha is conversing with a soldier in a blue uniform. This watercolour is copied from one by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams: 'Looking up the Wanganui River from sandhills near the town, 16 January 1865' in the Hocken Library, p. 63 in their now dismantled Williams' sketchbook. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 171 x 249 mm.