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Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I

Reference: PAColl-0400-2

Description: Postcards of nurses and New Zealand army officers convalescing. They include: the hospital ship Marama in Alexandria harbour; one of a soldier in tropical uniform with the caption "Yours severely scorpioned L C Kenney 22/10/15"; two army patients signed "8/3475 L Ballantine 2/10/17" and addressed to Sister Commons at Brockenhurst Hospital; and one captioned Epsom Nursing Division St John's Ambulance from which the workers of the Epsom Convalescent Home are drawn with the following names: back row - Nurses Craig, Snelling, Reid, Morton, Beale, McLaughlan, Walsh, Cumming, Young; middle row - Nurses Baird, Sinclair, Oliphant, Neill, Commons, Dawason, Chamtalour, Goodfellow, Summer, Clark, Daubney, Mackay, M Hesketh; front row - Nurses Buller, Butler, Turner, Firth (superintendant), Dr Dudley, Towle, Abbott, Macfarlane. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1915-1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PAColl-9855-1

Description: Loose prints associated with Jessie Mary Mackersey's album. These include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey, London ca 1917. Portrait of Wastel Briscoe born 1888-died Gallipoli 19 May 1915. Group of Soldiers of 24th Rifles, Featherston Military Camp. Group on the deck of `Prinzessan' en route for New Zealand, 1919. Colon and Church of Christ by the sea, 1919. Views of the Panama Canal and its technologies seen from the ship, 1919. Albert Memorial, London. Holiday at Lake Waikaremoana includes - View of the lake, Papakorito Falls, and friends of Lindsay Mackersey. Photographs of soldiers include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey with unidentified soldier. Studio portrait of Leslie Mackersey, Blake Mason and two unidentified soldiers, 1916. Group of unidentified soldiers probably in New Zealand. Voyage to New Zealand on `Prinzessan' via Panama Canal 1919, and holiday at Lake Waikaremoana. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand.

Date: 1914-1917

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1552

Description: Photograph album compiled by R V Kay for his future wife Sybil. Includes photographs of automobile travel, gardens, picnics, parties, golf, suspension bridges, motorcycles, New Zealand soldiers on troopship, military training in England, soldiers at Stonehenge and family and friends. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil, with love from Reg Aug '17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm

Date: Jan 1917-Feb 1919

From: Olsson family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7899-2

Description: Letters from Olsson while on active service during World War One to his family in New Zealand, first from Featherston and Trentham, then en route to England, Sling, London, France and Belgium, and England while he was in hospital. While not being specific about where he was he describes the daily life of a soldier, where and how they were living, such as billets, some war events and also mentioned items such as letters and postcards he was sending to his family to keep for him when he returned. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1909-1919

Reference: PAColl-7879

Description: Albums containing postcards relating to the service of New Zealanders in World War One. Consists mostly of studio portraits of soldiers taken in New Zealand and overseas and in military camps, but also includes several photographs of sailors taken ca 1910. Many of the postcards have notes or letters written on the reverse. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Ring binder albums 35 x 33 cm

Date: 1909-1936

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PA1-o-1731

Description: Most of the photographs, postcards and Christmas cards in this album were sent to Jessie Mackersey by her children Leslie, Lindsay, and Margaret who were all on war service in England, France and the occupation of the Rineland after the First World War. Album opens with a portrait of Jessie Mackersey dated 1909. Other items include - A christmas card from Sergeant Leslie Mackersey, 6th Howitzer Battery, France. Studio photograph of Leslie Mackersey and three friends in uniform. View of Trentham Military Camp and group photograph of soldiers. Postcard of public gardens in Dakar, Senegal. Group of soldiers on board ship. Photographs relating to the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England. These include a visit of the Duke of Connaught, group photographs of hospital staff and soldiers, and two snaps of Margaret Mackersey as an ambulance driver. The next ten pages relate to Lindsay Mackersey's time in the occupation force in the Rhineland. These include - photographs of German towns. Buildings. The Rhine. Bridges. River craft. Soldiers. Civilians. There are also postcards and Christmas cards from Germany. Eight photographs relate to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Homebush. Others include - A memorial in France to New Zealand troops killed in the Battle of the Somme. Interior view of a ward of the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst. Two photographs include a view of Tokomaru Bay, and a view of farm buildings in a hilly, recently burned off landscape. Photograph of the ceremony of presenting the New Zealand flag to the town of Lymington, 19 February 1919. Drurie Hill memorial tower, Whanganui, and gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Opening the Bishop Hadfield Memorial Hostel, Hadfield Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington, 1908. Postcards from England include - Windsor, Harrow, Brockenhurst, and the Tower of London. Groups picnicing. Wedding breakfast, 28 December 1920. Christmas and new year cards for 1936. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverkusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

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 1890-1930]

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PAColl-9773

Description: Contains Powles family photographs from the 1890s to the 1920s. Includes: a group portrait of the Levin Football Club, `Cup winners, 1898'; a view of Wellington Harbour with masted ships; views of a harbour town, probably on the south coast of England; views of two churches probably in the south-east of England; a photograph of an aqueduct, possibly part of the Wey and Arun canal; landscape and village scenes from the south-east of england and New Zealand; portraits of military officers; photographs of Colonel Charles Guy Powles on a horse and meeting soldiers while serving in Egypt; unidentified photographs of people and locations, probably taken in the Wellington Region. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints