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Date: Between 1914 and 1918

From: Quartermain album 1

Reference: PA1-o-425-14-3

Description: Wairarapa Ward, Trentham Hospital, taken between 1914 and 1918 by L B Quartermain, with a Ford ambulance in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Wairarapa"; Trentham Huts Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 3.9 x 6.3 cm mounted on album page

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-058

Description: Shows two ambulance officers carrying a man on a stretcher into his house. He is telling his neighbour what a great day's cricket he has been watching. Refers to Second Test match between Australia and New Zealand played at Eden Park, and Lance Cairns' batting skills. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1927, 1938-1956

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-145

Description: Most photographs contain captions &/or dates. Series of photographs taken during the Duke of York's visit to Wigram in 1927 (includes display of Bristol and Avro airplanes); series of photographs taken during and after the rugby match played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between RNZAF and NZ Army - Includes group photo of RNZAF team (all named); Eric Tindall introducing Minister of Defence Hon F Jones to teams; several taken during the game. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for UK in NZ being introduced to NZ airmen returned from overseas; RNZAF band at a wartime fundraising garden party held at Dr Herbert's on The Terrace, Wellington , ca 1942; RNZAF Station Band playing at Wigram, ca 1940; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten with Wing Commander J Checketts, Apr 1946. Three photos taken during the laying of the RNZAF colour at the Anglican Church, Golville, Wanganui (Group Captain C Turner & Rev Culpitt), ca 1947; Squadron Leader G Evatt & Air Vice Marshal C Kay, 1953; band at Ohakea, 1958; Governor General Lord Freyberg with Group Captain A B Greenaway (CO Wigram), 1949; Group Captain F R Dix with TAF officers at RNZAF Station Ohakea, 1950 Photo of Kingsford-Smith Memorial Gift Ambulance, 1948; RNZAF station at Wigram under construction, 1930s; DC-3 aircraft during supply drop training over Wigram, 1948; Squadron Leader Creichton, Flight Lieut Herrick and Flight Lieut Gibson; Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Milson, 1943 (named on back); meal during visit of Air Commodore G T Jarman to special ATC summer camp at Milson (includes Squadron Leader T Lester & Wing Commander G A Nicholls, Commandant of the Air Training Corps), and inspecting the school unit cadets 1944 Air Commodore G Vincent, acting Chief of Air Staff in the absence of Air Commodore R Goddard, discussing flight arrangements with Wing Commander R J Cohen and Squadron Leader Fisher at Whenuapai, Oct 1944; Air Vice Marshal R V Goddard, Chief of Air Staff at his desk, ca 1941-1943; Governor General Lord Cobham saluting the Queen's colour of the RNZAF during a parade; view of RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942 showing airmen on parade; unidentified group photo; members of RNZAF marching through streets of Wellington; group photo taken outside officers mess, Wigram (all named), ca 1948; portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Nevill; Squadron Leader G S Evatt with General John Doolittle on ANZAC Day 1956 at Ohakea; group photo taken at Wigram 1936 standing in front of Vildebreeste aircraft; surplus Harvard training aircraft in storage at Wigram, 1945; Catalina flying boat on a reconnaissance patrol; American Kittyhawks and NZ pilots; Mr Churchill's `York' aircraft (Avro) at Ohakea with Squadron Leader & Mrs Evatt standing beside a plane; a de Havilland being refuelled, 1937; Sunderland flying boats on the water and over NZ coast. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2000

Reference: H-638-001/018

Description: Topics include developments along the Wellington waterfront, Prime Minster Helen Clark's attack on spend-thrift television managers, controversy over the national museum Te Papa's presentation of artworks, the Constitutional Conference 2000, the rebel coup in Fiji, activist Tame Iti's visit to Fiji during the rebel coup, the character of Jenny Shipley, the Leader of the Opposition, New Zealand's health record compared to that of France, New Zealand doctors and nurses emigrating while immigrant doctors are not employed in New Zealand, Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Tariana Turia's use of the word holocaust in a Maori context, the falling New Zealand dollar, the use of human DNA in pig embryos, American miltary responses to cut-backs in New Zealand defence spending, the non-pacific nature of the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand-Australian agreement reached over social welfare and immigration policies, logging of native forests on the West Coast, the Treaty of Waitangi Tainui settlement advantaging the Hong KOng and Shanghai Bank. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopies of black ink drawings.

Date: 1940-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-171

Description: Series of numbered photographs (Plates 1-3, 5-6, 8-9) of rescue work using stretchers, taken in Wellington. Series of photographs taken by Green & Hamn (photographers of Christchurch) of 3 Field Ambulance training. Shows casualty being moved by stretcher up a steep slope to a waiting ambulance, and ferrying casualties on stretchers on a raft. Also 2 NZGH marching past Brigadier Bowerbank, Director-General of Medical Services, at Trentham. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1915 - 1975 - 1985

Reference: Eph-B-ST-JOHN-1900s

Description: Includes: 1915: St John Ambulance Association. National Reserve, NZ. Voluntary aid detachments St John Ambulance. 12 April 1915. Flyer 1974: St John's Day service and Investiture service by His Excellency the Governor-General Sir Denis Blundell. Town Hall Wellington, 17 November 1974. Order of service. 1975: Venerable Order of St John. Church service to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Order in New Zealand at St Mary's Merivale where the first meeting was held on 30th April 1885. Sunday 29th June 1975 at 2.30 pm. Order of service 1978: Order of St John. Wellington Metropolitan Sub-Centre. Circular letter August 1978 appealing for funds. 1982: Be a first aider. St John Ambulance. commencing 17 February 1982, 5th floor Rostrevor House. Flyer 1983: Order of St John. Wellington Metropolitan Sub-Centre. Circular letter appealing for funds. June 1983 (2 copies) 1985: Centennial of St John in New Zealand. Centennial commemoration and investiture service by the Grand Prior His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, at the Town Hall, Christchurch New Zealand, 7 April 1985. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s) 7 items. Physical Description: Flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Averil Callisen, Wellington, in 2007.

Date: 1920

By: Connell, Nigel Douglas, -1951; Barnard, Frank Allen, 1886-

Reference: D-041-002

Description: Photographs of Henry James Barnard and his wife Helena Marian (nee Brown) with six of their eight sons. The parents are shown against a background of painted flags, with an oval cutout showing a pastel on canvas board of Mt Egmont beyond a farm landscape, upper centre. The six sons are shown in uniform, their photographs arranged around a painted decorative border. An address in Gothic script praises the Barnards for their work in providing a field ambulance for the First World War. A photograph of the ambulance is placed centrally at the base of the address. The text includes a reference to the death in World War I of two of the Barnard's sons. Signatures include that of W A Wilkinson, M P. See TL 3/1/1/, 8 March, 31 March 1985 & 9 May 1985 for identification of family members depicted, etc. The Barnard sons shown, clockwise from top right are Henry (1890-1915), Joseph William, (b 1893), Alfred Montague, (1898-1945); Charles Valentine (1896-1917); James (b 1897); Frank Allen (b 1886) Inscriptions: N D Connell Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour, pastel on canvas board, and 9 photographs adhered, all on card, 734 x 554 mm

Date: 1931

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-048195-G

Description: Men and women at a relief camp in Palmerston North for victims of the Napier earthquake of 1931. A Christchurch Free Ambulance can be seen on the right and in the background are rows of tents set up at the camping ground. Photograph taken by S C Smith. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1914-1918

From: Powles family papers

Reference: PA1-o-814

Description: Coverage mainly Sir Guy's activities with Island Territories Dept (Samoa) and Foreign Affairs; Ombudsman. Also material relating to Sir Guy's father who saw service in Boer War and WWI and some material relating to his grandfather. Of particular importance are Colonel Powles well documented albums recording his involvement in the Gallipoli and Egyptian and Palestine campaigns, World War One. Many of these photographs were used to illustrate his official war history. Most of the negatives relate to Egypt and Palestine. Quantity: 1 album(s).