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Date: 1915 - 1916

From: [Ephemera and posters around A3 size, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances in New Zealand. 1900-1969].

Reference: Eph-C-VARIETY-1915/1916-01/03

Description: Fliers / programmes for the monthly "pops" held at the Municipal Theatre Hastings for the Wounded Fund. Dates for the 9th, 12th and 13th pops are 19 November 1915, 18 February 1916 and 16 March 1916. Performers included Miss Dorothy Saunders (dances), Mr Razell Wood (songs), Mr & Mrs Dudley Hill (songs), Miss Kiore King (recitation), Mrs T W Lewis, Miss Gertrude Gallien, Mr F S Thomas (song)Mrs J A Rosewarne, Mr Reg Pearce, Mr & Mrs Harry Avery, Mrs W A Whitlock, Sr Stanley Prime, Mr A E Renouf, Mrs Fitzherbert. Quantity: 3 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on posters 315 x 245 mm.

Date: [ca 1941-1945]

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1933

Description: Photograph album compiled by Robert Thomas Martin containing images of New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands during military training and service in World War II. Some images likely taken by Martin. New Zealand images show training camps at Rotorua (1941), Papakura (1942), 1st Field Ambulance camp in Warkworth (Jun-Sep 1942), and Fencourt [Cambridge?] (1942). In addition to informal portraits featuring Martin, Colin Arroll, and other unidentified soldiers, there are images of tents, a route march, a hospital under construction and parked ambulances (at Warkworth), and a Bob Semple tank with soldiers and Martin and his sister Valerie posed in front (at Papakura). Identified groups include Warrant Officers and Sergeants in 1st Field Ambulance in Papakura, 7th Field Ambulance, and D Company. Also image of Martin walking down a street in uniform while on leave. Images from Rotorua also show Regent Theatre (exterior and courtyard), Post Office, Sanatorium building and grounds, St Faith’s Church (Ohinemutu), swimming scenes at the Blue Baths, and Maori children diving for pennies [at Whakarewarewa?]. A 1940 series of images at a house in [Auckland?] show Martin in uniform with various people including his Uncle Frank, Guy [?], and a number of young women [relatives, including his sister Valerie?]. Martin is also photographed with a dog [Collie?]. Images from service in New Caledonia, Jan-Aug 1943, feature group photographs of the B Company 7th New Zealand Field Ambulance at Nemeara and Nepoui Valley. Identified people in informal group and individual portraits at the Nemeara Camp are Doug Smith, Wally McKusker, Doug Smith, Stan Poomore, Shorty Luscombe, Jack Ireland, Allan Stewart, Bill Cullum, and Cliff Pinker. Nemeara Camp images also include a medical examination of an unidentified local man, local children and men, the cookhouse, tents, hospital “bure” [thatched hut], a combination water heater and incinerator, mess hut under construction, swimming area in river [including competition?], and Nemeara mission church (with Mt Boa in the background). Images from Bourail show the gendarmerie, Main Street, and a church. Also view of Nouméa Harbour Treasury Island images show scenic views, including the river mouth at Malsi and the northern tip of Mono Island. Solomon Islanders are photographed including local men trained to fight by 34th Battalion, A Company tent, vegetation, local church (following rebuild by 29th Battalion) and [another?] destroyed church, men packing up the QM [Quartermasters?] store, and group getting ready to play “Tennaquoits”. Identified men are Tom Murphy, Jock Plunkett, Fred Walker, and Martin. Some show men posing with “Jap Souvenirs” (including flag, swords, knife, and trumpet), sick and injured men at 7th Field Ambulance [MDS?] at Stirling and on stretchers being evacuated by barge. Images of military equipment and armaments include G pounder anti-tank gun, 50 mm Bofors Ack Ack gun, a jeep (being dug out of mud), beach landing craft, beach scene with men rolling drums [fuel?], LST being unloaded at Purple Beach (Stirling Island), ship ‘Tyrone’, and a boat described as a “Seaplane tender”. Arrangement: Donor identified item as "ITEM C Family photos and Pacific Islands". Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 115 silver gelatin photoprints. Physical Description: Black cardboard album bound with string, 20 x 23 cm

Date: 1916

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1916-06

Description: A folded memorial card, with text on the front, beneath the flages of New Zealand and Britain. A quotation from St Paul is below: "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card. Physical Description: Offset print, on folded card, 153 x 102 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: 1918 - 1930

Reference: Eph-C-WAR-WI-1920-01

Description: Shows the names of eleven men from the Omata District killed during the First World War, and fifty others who served in the war. Those killed were: Corporal T S Crompton, Private E L Allen, Private P Wood, Rifleman W H Millman, Private E Anstis, Private J J Crompton, Lance-Corporal L A Warren, Private N Wood, Private D Mace, Corporal R Kidd, Private H A Prujean. Among the remaining fifty, some bore the family names of Crompton, Mace, and Anstis. At the lower edge is a landscape of the Omata area showing rolling country, the Omata Stockade and Mount Taranaki in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, coloured, 375 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: 31 Dec 1916 - 31 Dec 1917

From: Jeune, Dudley James Frederick, 1897-1949 : World War One papers

Reference: MSX-9043

Description: Comprises one World War One diary documenting personal experiences of Dudley James Frederick Jeune, service number 41403, from 31 December 1916 to 31 December 1917. Part of 25th Reinforcements, NZFA. Covers the time period in a New Zealand army camp prior to leaving for war, the voyage on SS Turakina via Freemantle, Sydney, Sierra Leone, to arrival in Plymouth, England, leave and camp life in England, arrival in Boulogne, France, life at the front, working with horses and war action as part of 13th Battery, 3rd Brigade, New Zealand Field Artillery (NZFA), and a snowy Christmas and New Year 1917. Diary includes continuation of date entries at the front of the diary, plus addresses, financial notes, lists of ships, the military identification details for Jeune. Also includes diagram of wiring for a DIII field telephone. Accompanying note with diary identifies that the diary was given to "Dud" by his parents on 15th Jan 1917. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 425 digitised images

Date: [ca 1915]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001260-F

Description: Group of men (including two shop assistants) reading the war news outside the general store in Tokomaru Bay. A group of children and a male teacher are standing on the verandah gathered around the `War News' noticeboard. The shop front window displaying items of clothing can be seen behind the men in the centre of the photograph. Sign on the righthand side of the store reads `Oates Bros, Tailoring Dept. W. McCulloch, manager'. Photograph possibly taken by Oates Bros of Tokomaru Bay, ca 1915. Note on back of file print reads: "Only 1/2 of neg is still intact - the rest has been shattered." This could relate to an original glass negative. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Reading the war news. Tokomaru Bay. No O.B. 196 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0015457

Description: A roadsign for 'Fielding'[sic] has the 'F' crossed out to be replaced by a 'D' which makes the word 'Die' at the beginning of the name. The sign casts the shadow of the Grim Reaper across the road. Refers to the unfortunate number of unexpected deaths connected to Feilding in recent times, the murder of Scott Guy, the murder-suicide of three people from the Winnie and Honeyfield families, the death of Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell who was serving in Afghanistan and the deaths of pilot Jessica Neeson, 27, and her student Patricia Smallman, 64, in a mid-air collision. The town's name is actually spelled Feilding Title taken from item. Other Titles - Feilding Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).