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Photograph of Kelburn Home Guard
Date: 1940
From: Harper, James Edward, fl 2004 :Photographs
Reference: PAColl-9631
Description: Group portrait of Platoon D, Kelburn Home Guard Company, taken 1940 by an unknown photographer. Edward James Haughey (1908-2004?) is at front row, extreme right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 16.4 x 21 cm
[Creator unknown] :Historic places [map]. Pauatahanui. [197-?].
Date: 1843 - 1939 - 1847 - 1945
Reference: MapColl-832.47p/[197-?]/Acc.23130
Description: Map showing old military installations from the New Zealand Wars, 1843-7 and the home guard sites of New Zealand Army in World War II. Sites from the New Zealand War include Te Rangihaeata's stronghold (1846), the site of a chapel and the colonial cemetery at Pauatahanui, military trenches (one named McKillops), the barracks of the 65th regiment, the officer's quarters, the Boulton's Hotel of 1847, Troopers Hill, isolated Maori grave along Paekakariki Hill Road, the landing stage of the 58th and 65th regiments, Tandy's constablulary's post and the Waitaha Maori at Ration Point. Sites during World War II include the home guard headquarters of 1941 at Jones Deviation, the 1939 New Zealand Army Unit and United States Marines 2nd division near Kakaho Stream, as well as the Duck Creek saw mill at Bradey's Bay. Shows J Walker's homestead. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 34.2 x 36.6 cm.
World War 1939-1945. New Zealand Home Guard
Date: [1939-1945]
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-4161-01-035
Description: Home Guard training. Includes photographs showing building of defence works, mock battles, rifle drill, manoevures, constructing pine log cabins, on patrol in bush country, recruitment meeting at Palmerston North, etc. Shows Lower Hutt Home Guard, Greenlane Home Guard, Mounted Squadron at Lake Rotorua, on manoevures at Lake Coleridge and on West Coast. Photograph of Brigadier Nathan of Blenheim District. Photographs taken by various photographers including official and Evening Post. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s).
School of Bush and Mountain Warfare
Date: 1943
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: DA-01816
Description: Members of the Wellington Home Guard and US Marine Corps personel, taking part in the School of Bush and Mountain Warfare in burnt bush on the Marchant Ridge, Tararua Range. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Members of the Christchurch Home Guard digging air raid shelters
Date: 1941
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: DA-00481
Description: Members of the Elmwood Home Guard, Christchurch North Battalion, digging shelters for invalid soldiers at Rannerdale Soldiers Home. Photographed in December 1941 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Army training in New Zealand
Date: 1939-1945
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: PA1-q-291-94-267
Description: Building weapon pits is part of the job of the Home Guard in N.Z., and these jobs are done in the weekends. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Christchurch Home Guardsmen
Date: 1942
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: DA-03316
Description: Christchurch Home Guardsmen being taught the use of Tommy guns. Photographed by the Christchurch Star Sun on 15 Jan 1942 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Members of the New Zealand Home Guard, Somes Platoon of Bush Guides, on reconnaissance ...
Date: 1942
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: DA-01783
Description: Members of the Somes Platoon of Bush Guides (Wellington Fortress Area), on their first reconnaissance of the upper Orongrongo River. This platoon of the New Zealand Home Guard are seen here at the junction of Te Ore Ore Creek and the Orongorongo River. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe on 27 Sept 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Army training in New Zealand
Date: 1939-1945
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: PA1-q-291-95-272
Description: The Home Guardmen are mainly men over the Army age limit. Here two Home Guardmen are doing a shoot --- one a young chap from a factory, the other an older man over the Army age limit. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Members of the Home Guard being led by pipers, through Ngaio, Wellington
Date: [ca 27 Jan 1941]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: PAColl-8557-45
Description: Members of the Home Guard, being led through Ngaio, Wellington, by pipers of the Wellington Regiment and Scots College. Photograph taken circa 27 January 1941, by an unidentified staff photographer for the Evening Post. Publication note - Published in the Evening Post 27 Jan 1941 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12.8 x 20.2 cm
Paraparaumu Home Guard, during World War II
Date: 11 Jan 1941
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-8602-42
Description: Paraparaumu Home Guard, during World War II, during their first parade. Shows approximately 80 men standing outside a hall. Photograph taken 11 January 1941, by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand Free Lance, [13? or 18?] Jan 1941 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Inscriptions: Verso - Paraparaumu Home Guard. First Parade On Saturday 11th Jan Paraparaumu residents held a most successful parade of the Home Guard with an attendance of about eighty. Rifles were issued and several short addresses given. [Beattie?] Box 23 Paraparaumu Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 21.2 cm
Members of the signal section of the Christchurch Home Guard
Date: 1941
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: DA-00484
Description: Members of the signal section of the Christchurch Home Guard demonstrating their signaling equipment. Photographed on 20 Jul 1941 by an unknown Photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
World War II Home Guard unit on patrol, in bush near Eastbourne
Date: 1939-1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000016-F
Description: World War II Home Guard unit on patrol, in bush near Eastbourne. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Original caption reads: "A Home Guard unit on patrol in dense bush country. These men are picked for their experience and judgement in bush and river travel." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Home Guardsmen during the hui to mark the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross to ...
Date: 6 Oct 1943
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000691-F
Description: Home Guardsmen at the hui to mark the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, Whakarua Park, Ruatoria, on 6 October 1943. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Publication note - This photograph possibly published in I L G Sutherland (with photographs by John Pascoe), The Ngarimu hui (Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1949)1 Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of file print, from I L G Sutherland (with photographs by John Pascoe), The Ngarimu hui (Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1949) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Christchurch Homeguardsmen fusing home made bombs
Date: 1941
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: DA-00498
Description: Pioneer Platoon Christchurch South Battalion fusing home made bombs for Sunday's manoeuvres. Photographed by the Christchurch Star Sun on 5 Nov 1941. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Home Guard hut near Eastbourne
Date: 1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/4-000020-F
Description: Home Guard hut near Eastbourne, photographed circa 1943 by John Dobree Pasoce. Caption on back of file print reads: "The ragged appearance of this Home Guard nut (near Eastbourne) masks a comfortable interior wheere a handful of men can bivouac in security from bad weather." Note on back of file print reads "See 1/4-000017 to 000019 for building of hut." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
Men of the Home Guard, Christchurch South Battalion, on manoeuvres.
Date: 1941
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: DA-00496
Description: Members of the New Zealand Home Guard, Christchurch South Battalion, attending to the "wounded" on manoeuvres. Photographed by the Christchurch Star Sun on 4 Nov 1941. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
A member of the Home Guard at the Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki
Date: 1939 - 1945
From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives
Reference: 1/2-154214-F
Description: A member of the Home Guard looking out to sea from the top of the Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, during World War II. The man is in uniform and holds a rifle. Taken by John Pascoe between 1939 and 1945. This may be a composite image. Other - This image was used for a recruitment campaign during World War II Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Suggestion that this may be a composite image, and notes about the image being used in a World War II recruitment campaign, made by Library client, 2007. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 100 x 125 mm
Members of the Christchurch Home Guard in training
Date: 1942
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: DA-00487
Description: Members of the Christchurch Home Guard in training. An expert explains the principles during aiming instruction. Christchurch East Battalion. Photographed by the Christchurch Star Sun on 11 April 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).